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flruding their journal ; with an enumeration of aM 

 thofe kibjeds that demand their attention. 



6. Idea of a compleat botanift. Some of the 

 principal botanifts are here enumerated. 



7. A compend of the philofophy of vege- 

 tation. 



17531 appeared the Profeflbr's Opus 

 " maximum et aternumy^ the Species Plantarum 

 exhihentes Plant as rite cognitas^ ad genera relatas^ cum 

 differentiis fpecificiSy mminibus trivialibus^ fynonymis 

 fele5lis^ locis natalihus^ fecundum fyftema fexuale dl- 

 gefias, Tom. II. Holm. 8% 1753, pp. 1200 ; and 

 a fecond time in 1762, pp. 1684. To give this 

 work its utmoft perfedion, had been the author's 

 objedt for many years, and to this all his other bota- 

 nic produ6lions are in fome meafure only prepara- 

 tory ; efpecially the catalogues ; as the rightly 

 afcertaining the /pedes is the great obje6t of all me- 

 thod. In this work Linn^us takes in every plant 

 that had come fufficiently under his own infpec- 

 tion ; feldom admitting any on the authority of 

 others ; and wherefoever he has done it, the plant 

 is diftinguifhed by a proper mark. The plan of 

 this work is, in general, agreeable to that of all 

 his other local catalogues ; no other part of the 

 fyftem being exemplified except the fpems : and 

 as it is entirely botanical, none of the uks 

 of the plants are here introduced. Every plant 

 has its fpecific name, conftrudted according to the 

 rules eftabliflied in the eighth part of the Philo^ 

 fophia Botanica^ with a reference to all, or any of 

 his own works, in which it has been mentioned be- 



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