34a 



praediit Ellis ^ opus de sertulariis quod 10. 6 p. venditur. nunc produnt tab* 

 a Millero promissae, non admodum accuratae. Ehretius, a quo Ehretiae 

 nomen a Trewio impositum fuit, edidit preter 12 tabulas splendidas et 

 acuratas quidem, nuper alteram Beurerise, satis accurate et pulchre de- 

 pictatn. Ehretia vero planta est americana Jam'* quidem, sed pentandra; 

 specimen cum aliis nonnullis data occasione transmittam. 



fruetus Volkamerise idem est, quem in Gharacteribus Glerodendri 

 describis: Bacca &c. 



Hymenaeae Stamina distincta sunt, sed filamenta Bauhiniae Americse 

 coalita; Bombacis vero tantum quinque & malvacea. &c. &c. &c. 



Vale Vir Geleberrime & perge me amare. 



Londini 11 Mart. 1756. 



Utanskrift: 



Celeberrimo Societati Regice Scientiarum Suecice 

 quce Upsalia est 

 Upsal in 

 Swedland. 



Linn. Soc, Vol. II: 192—193. 



^ John Ellis, se denna del s. 103. not 8. 



224. 



I never coveted any Book, I know not by what Instinct, with 

 more ardour desire than yours; at length 1 understood that an 

 English Gentleman residing at Stockholm had got it; I intreated 

 him to lend it me for a fortnight, and obtained it. I spent day 

 and Night in reading it through, I read it över, but never enough 

 and returnd it. Good God how Mras I transported with desire of 

 a book infinetly to be commended. Tvvo things I particularly ob- 

 served therein which I have not met with in other Authors. The 

 first was the Authors most honest Candour and human disposi- 

 tion; who is not sharp upon any, severe to non, nor enveighs 

 against others, as now the Custom amongst the vulgär herd of 

 Authors, but condidly inculcates his own observations without 

 taxing others, because the could not see thesse things the wished 

 to inspect, but not in theire power. The other thing I noted was 

 the writers perspicuity, who has set forth his plants so correctly 

 and so exactly to the Life, that I could see as it were the very 



