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Loefiing had already collected about fix hundred 

 ipecies, and among them were about thirty new 

 Genera? and about two hundred and fifty fpecies 

 not mentioned before by Dr. Linnaeus in his 

 works, thq defcriptions of which he drew up. 

 The fever had emaciated poor Loefiing? he got a 

 double tertian with fainting fits, but conquered 

 this. In the beginning of 1755, he went to the 

 minion of Merer -cm % here he got newparoxyfms 

 of intermittent fevers, and foon after the Leu- 

 cophlegmatia (perlefia) and at laft that kind of 

 dropfy called amfarca? of which he died Febru- 

 ary the twenty-fecond, 1756. His tutor Lin- 

 naeus publilhed Loefiing s letters containing abfo- 

 lutely nothing but defcriptions, queries and Bu- 

 lla about plants, with fome repeated acknow- 

 ledgments to his tutor, fome defcriptions of rare 

 Spanilh plants, which are given here at full 

 length, and reckoned by Dr. Linnaus to be mo- 

 dels in their kind ; laftly, fome defcriptions and 

 remarks on American plants which are like wife 

 here added. 



Thus died together with Peter Loefiing? the 

 hopes of the great advantages to natural hiftory, 

 which were expected from his tour through Spa- 

 nifii South America \ which country no doubt is 

 the richer! field for difcoveries of every kind in 

 natural hiftory and whofe treafures are now, as 



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