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(or brown) round hat, and brown wig. He wears Lap- 

 lander's gloves. This portrait shows a wart on the 

 right cheek. It is altogether the most pleasing portrait 

 of him that we have, representing a good-looking 

 brown-eyed young man, of serious but intelligent ex- 

 pression, aged twenty-eight. The lively colours of his 

 garments are a blue collar lined with red, and a yellow 

 worked yoke below the collar, a blue pouch, red watch- 

 bag with yellow top, brown dress, green and yellow 

 scalloped leather case for tools or collections, for which 

 purpose he doubtless utilised also the Laplander's drum. 

 He holds the pink flower, which had just been pub- 

 lished under the name of Linncea borealis by his friend 

 Gronovius. An engraving of this plant is given in the 

 twelfth plate of the * Flora Lapponica,' which Linnaeus 

 had succeeded in getting printed by means of a society 

 at Amsterdam of which Burmann was a member, and 

 which Linnaeus had often visited, the society offering to 

 advance the twelve plates, 1 which are interleaved with 

 verses as mottoes. Some of these are in Swedish, but 

 they are chiefly from Ovid and other Latin poets. The 

 andromedas figure in the first plate. The first page has 

 some gushingly complimentary verses from Brouwallius, 

 dated from Fahlun in Suecia, November 24, 1736, to 

 his ' peerless friend Carolus Linnaeus, Med. Doc.' The 

 frontispiece to Smith's edition of the book is a Lap- 

 landish willow-pattern-plate sort of landscape : some 

 precipices, like ruined steeples set in substantial clouds, 

 1 Diary. 



