SECTION VIIL LINNiEUS AND THE JUSSIEUS 



GAEL LINN^US (LINNlfi) 

 1707-1778 



Systema Naturae. Fol. Lugd. Batav. 1735 ; ed. X, 2 torn. 8vo. Holmiae, 

 1758-9 ; ed. XII. 3 torn. Svo. Holmiee. 1766-8. 



Classes Plantarum. 8vo. Lugd. Batav. 1738. 



Genera Plantarum. Svo. Lugd. Batav. 1737. 



Species Plantarum, 2 torn. Svo. Holmiae. 1753. 



Philosophia Botanica. Svo. Holm, et Amst. 1751. 



Hortus Cliffortianus. Fol. Amst. 1737. 



Flora Lapponica. Svo. Amst. 1737. 



Flora Suecica. Svo. Lugd. Batav. 1745. 



Fauna Suecica. Svo. Lugd. Batav. 1746. 



Amoenitates Academicae. Svo. Holm, et Lips. 1749-85. Three more vols, 

 published at Erlangen, 1785-90. 



Lachesis Lapponica, or a tour in Lapland . . . from the original manuscript 

 journal of . . . Linnaeus. By J. E. Smith. 2 vols. Svo. Lond. 1811. 



Carl Linn^us was born in 1707, in the same year with 

 BufFon and Bernard de Jussieu, one year after the death 

 of Tournefort, and two years after the death of Eay. 

 His father was co-minister, afterwards minister, of the 

 parish of Stenbrohult in the province of Smaland. The 

 province of Smaland in southern Sweden is occupied by 

 a monotonous succession of rocky knolls, lakes, swamps 

 and forests ; it is intensely glaciated, and the ice-worn 

 rocks are either covered with a scanty moorland vegeta- 

 tion or smothered in drift. Wooden houses, painted 

 red and roofed with live turf, and churches with wooden 

 spires and detached belfries, are scattered about. The 



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