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tER;* and the plants of different portions of South-- 

 Avierica, by Plumier, Aublet, Mad. Merian, 

 Don Rlhz, Don Pavon, and others; and of the 

 South-Sea Islands, by the indefatigable Dr. Fors- 

 TER, whose Nova Genera Plantarum may be con- 

 sidered one of the most valuable additions made 

 to botanical science since the time of Ltnnjeus. 



The catalogue of plants enumerated by the great 

 botanist of Sweden last mentioned, amounted to 

 about ten thousand. Of these he actually described 

 about eight thousand. The number since disco- 

 vered and added to the Hst is very great. Besides 

 the numerous discoveries of new plants by some of 

 the celebrated systematic writers before mentioned, 

 ]M. CoMMERSON, of France, in the course of his 

 circumnavigation with Bougainville, found near 

 fifteen hundred new species. M. Dombey, of the 

 same country, and Don Mutis, of Spain, disco- 

 vered a still greater number in South-America. 

 M. Desfontaines brought to light r\t2iX four hun- 

 dred non-descripts, found in Africa. Dr. Sibthorp 

 brought tico hundred new species from the Archi- 

 pelago; Professor TnuNBERG m^ hundred ^rom Ja- 

 pan; M. Sw^ARTZ more than eight hundred from 

 the West-India Islands; and M. Michaux more 

 than four hundred from the Levant, Persia, and 

 North-America. To these may be added the se- 

 veral thousands brought from almost every quarter 

 of the globe, by Sir Hans Sloane, Messrs. La- 

 GERSTROEM, OsBECK, ToREN, and Dahlberg, Dr. 

 SoLANDER, Dr. Sparman, Sir Joseph Banks, Dr. 

 FoRSTER, and a long catalogue of modern cir- 

 cumnavigators and travellers, insomuch that the 

 species now known and described considerably 

 exceed twenty thousand! 



I An Account of some of the Vegetable Productions naturally groiving />» 

 America, by Manasseh Cutler, D. D. Memoirs of the American Aca* 

 demy of Arts and Sciences., vol. i. 



i See i3£P.R£N«9UT'5 Syuo^sU of Natural ffijfory, % vols. i2ino. 1789. 



