HISTOllY OF B()TA.NY. 



the Russian Empire, in three volumes, St Petersburgh, 1771 

 to 1776, produced a rich harvest of botanical discoveries. 

 The Indian Flora also became more known, from the labours 

 of Nicholas Lorenzo Burmann, professor at Amsterdam, who 

 died 1793, because, in his Flora Indica, Leyden, 1768, he 

 has formed a great number of new species from the collec- 

 tions, of others. 



'jnThe West Indies were examined in the most complete 

 manner, during the age of Linnaeus. Patrick Browne pub- 

 lished his Civil and Natural History of Jamaica, Lon- 

 don, 1756, in folio; Nicolaus Joseph de Jacquin, his excel- 

 lent Historia Stirpium Selectarum Americanarum, Vienna, 

 1763, in folio; and a French apothecary. Fusee Aublet, his 

 incomparable Histoire des Plantes de la Guiane Fran^aise, in 

 four volumes, Paris, 1775, in quarto. 



Lastly, the treasures of the South Sea Islands were made 

 known by Cook'^s two companions during his second voyage, 

 namely, John Reinhold, who died 1798, and George Forster, 

 who died 1794. The Characteres Generum Plantarum ap^ 

 peared at London 1776. 



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Among the native Floras which became known in the time 

 of Linnaeus, we may mention the Flora Carniolica of John 

 Antony Scopoli, professor at Pavia, afterwards chief physi- 

 cian in Idria, who died 1788, published at Vienna 1772 ; 

 but more especially the Flora Austriaca of Nicolaus Joseph 

 de Jacquin, in five centurise, Vienna, 1773 to 1776, folio;; 

 also the Historia Plantarum in Palatinatu Electorali cres- 

 centium of John Adam Pollich, physician to the imperial 

 miners, who died 1780, three volumes, Manheim, 1776, and 

 the Flora Herbornensis of John Daniel Leer, 1775. Al- 

 brecht von Haller, originally professor at Gottingen, after- 

 wards landammanof the canton of Bern, who died 1777, pub- 

 lished a masterly work, his Historia Stirpium Helvetias indi- 

 genarum, Bern, 1768, folio. 



Among the French Floras of that period, the preference i& 

 due to Lewis Gerard"*s Flora Gallo-Provincialis, Paris, 1761, 



