mates 
in 17873 the | lat j in 0s In obs winnie the. mot min 
parts are detailed witha fidelity rarely to be elfewhere aed 
except in the cryptogamic publications of Hoffmann, Schra- 
der, and Perfoon, for thefe a ‘cheeses The —o. 
to the ite mplete. 
‘The author lived to witnefs the gene neral applaufe — 
his labours received, notwithitanding fome attacks made o 
his theories of impregnation by Gertner, Necker, aa 
others, and he enjoyed alfo the general refpe&t of thofe who 
‘knew or correfponded with him. — he was not e 
‘from domeftic afflic& ot feven children brought him 
a diced h in sper infancy, an 
forted for the occupation of his thoughts. His health de- 
‘clined. A fucceflion of feverifh aneacks impaired his coniti- 
tution, and he died of a typhus, after nine days confine- 
ment, on the 17th of Feb. 1799, aged 68. He left four 
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F 
children, the offspring of marriage, two 
daughters and two fons. Of ormer, one married profeffor 
of Leipfic, the other Dr. Su 
ec: 
ftaede in Saxony. One of his fo 
urg ; named Romanus Adolphus, adopted 
ere father’s taftes and pata fettled asa phytician at Leip- 
‘fic, publifhed two fafciculi of a fplendid work on ferns, 
with coloured plates, as well as fome phyfiological eeaiich. 
“but unfortunately did not Eg furvive his aa uifhe 
parent. 
To fum p the fcientific Schnader of Hedwig ; as an 
obferver and “Lithfal defcriber he cannot be ranked too high; 
as a vegetable phyfiologift, if not always “ors he ftands 
in be tirft order, andghis knowledge was en nhane by mo- 
dikes 
ers 
‘< tm fo that his. 
both indeGinite ite a cap 2 aoren is 
Seas fame aka in _ Aa againit his. truncuty 
xempt 
‘the 
ons is an eminent painter at | 
HED 
GI A. or much 
zel. 
HEDWIGIA, in Botany, fo named by Swartz in Nie 
nour of great mufcologift; fee Hepwic. This jut 
tribute had been paid him already by Ehrhart in the Hanover 
agazine os 1781, sige a Se iat himfelf in his Funda- 
part it. “<p. 5 
the genus - which it was ‘iglicd 3 was Taare funk in 
reg i by Swartz and others. ow it is, we believe 
» itmu 
Hedwig than any other ve could be. Chane 
MUM.—Swartz. Prod 23 Oce. 670" t. +1 
Schreb. 800. _ Willd. 332. Mart. Mill, 
Sp. Pl. 
Di&. v. g—Clafs and peck Odandria Monogynia. Nat. 
Ord. Trihilate, Linn. Melie, Julf. 
- Ch. Ca/. Perianth inferior, of es leaf, cup a 
sd 
Seeds, Nuts folitary, ovate, pointed, convex and. very fi 
on one fide, rugged and uneven on the other; kernel of the 
ame fhaj ee: 
Eff. C h. Calyx inferior, ba toothed. Corolla tubular. 
be Style none, Capfule threelobed, three -celled. 
Nuts folitary. 
_ Obf. This genus: thould-be placed between Guarea and 
Amyris in * Linnzan fyftem. 
i. H. balfamifera. | Swartz. Ind. Oce. 672 | flere 
cochon ; Nicolfon. Hift. de St. Dates "1693, 2060 
to Swartz. —Native of woods on the hills in the cies 
A tall tree, rendered contre at a 
whitith grey bark of #5 
their exe 
Leaves alters 
ngy fmooth 3. their 
alks, apeelie ‘eae 
fhorter than the — erect, ftraight, « oe 
gular: ftalks. © Flowers fmall, soar? Capi as te 
large hazel-nut, with a coriaceous fk n, full of an 1 aromati ; 
abe Nuts hard, with an oily bitter ena 
bark, and heal. their meni Poe the e gum that onesye 
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