SECTION VIII. LINNiEUS AND THE JUSSIEUS 



GAEL LINNiEUS (LIIfNfi) 

 1707-1778 



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

 1758-9 ; ed. XII. 3 torn. 8vo. Holmise. 1766-8. 



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



Genera Plantarum. 8vo. Lugd. Batav. 1737. 



Species Plantarum, 2 torn. 8vo. Holmise. 1753. 



Philosophia Botanioa. 8vo. Holm, et Amst. 1751. 



Hortus Cliffortianus. Fol. Amst. 1737. 



Flora Lapponioa. 8vo. Amst. 1737. 



Flora Sueoioa. 8vo. Lugd. Batav. 1745. 



Fauna Sueoioa. 8vo. Lugd. Batav. 1746. 



Amoenitates Aeademic£e. 8vo. Holm, et Lips. 1749-86. Three more vols, 

 published at Eriangen, 1785-90. 



Laehesis Lapponioa, or a tour in Lapland . . . from the original manuscript 

 journal of . . . Linn^us. By J. E. Smith. 2 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1811. 



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

 BuiFon 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 Sm§,land. The 

 province of Sm§,land 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 



