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in octavo. Antony Gouan's Flora Monspeliaca, Lyons, 

 1765, and the lilustrationes et Observationes Botanicae of the 

 same author, published at Zurich, 1773, in folio. 



The plants of Italy were examined with great diligence by 

 Francis Seguier. His Plantje Veronenses appeared in three 

 volumes at Verona, 1745 to 1754. 



A Spanish Flora was published by Don Joseph Quer y 

 Martinez, professor at Madrid, who died 1764. It appeared 

 in four quarto volumes at Madrid, 1762 to 1764. 



An excellent English Flora was published by William 

 Hudson, apothecary in London, who died 1793, a second 

 edition having appeared in 1778 ; and the valuable Floi a 

 Scotica of John Lightfoot, who died 1788, was published in 

 two volumes, London, 1777. 



The Danish government did a permanent service to the 

 science, by causing the plants of Denmark to be engraved 

 at its own expence, and by devolving the care of the work 

 first upon George Christian Oeder, and aftervvards upon Otto 

 Frederick Miiller. In consequence of their labours appeared 

 the masterly work entitled Flora Danica, the four first volumes 

 of which were pubhshed from 1761 to 1777. Nor ought we to 

 forget the Flora Norwegica of John Ernst Gunnerus, bishop 

 of Drontheim, who died 1773, two volumes, 1766 and 1772. 



460. 



Among the botanical gardens which were most celebrated 

 in the time of Linnaeus, we may notice particularly that at 

 Vienna, the rare plants of which were marked, by Jacquin, in 

 the Hortus Botanicus Vindobonensis, Vienna, 1770 to 1776. 

 three volumes. The garden at Upsal had been already de- 

 scribed by Linnaeus himself, in the year 1748. 



VI. Recent History of Botany. 

 461. 



Since the death of Linnaeus, the chief labours of botanists 

 have been employed in perfecting his system, in applying it 



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