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of curious obfervations relating to the economical 

 and medical ufes of the plants and has particu- 

 larly noted thofe that are capable of being ap- 

 plied to the purpofes of dyeing. The author 

 moreover never fails to mention euporiftic medi- 

 cines, which he feems to think, perhaps very 

 juftiy, have not been attended to by phyficians 

 as they deferve. The plan of this work has been 

 a pattern for all fucceeding writers of local cata- 

 logues, more efpecially thofe who have followed 

 the hinn^an fyftem, and has been very little im- 

 proved by any ; perhaps excelled by none. The 

 plants of Lapland are all included in this work ; 

 and the preface, befides the account of Swedijh 

 authors on botany, contains a curious divifion of 

 the feveral provinces of the kingdom, in refpeft 

 to their different foils and fituation, as adapted 

 to particular plants, fpecifying under each pro- 

 vince the plants found therein. 



In 1746 appeared the Fauna Su ecic a, J/flens 

 Animalia Suecice Regni : Mammalia^ Aves^ Amphu 

 hia^ Pifces^ Infe^a^ Vermes , diftributa per claffes et 

 cr dines ^ genera et fpecies^ &c. Stockholm 1746, 8°; 

 und again, greatly augmented, in 1761, pp. 556. 

 The firft edition contained 1350 fubjeds, the 

 latter comprehends not lefs than 2266. Neither 

 in this work are any clajfical^ ordinal^ or generical 

 notes given at large. The world had never feen 

 fo compendious, and it may be truly faid, at the 

 fame time, fo complete a zoology before. Here, as 

 in plants, the author has given to each animal a 

 new fpecific name, exprellive, as far as pofTible, 

 of its effentjal charadter. The fynonym are added, 



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