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attention of his readers to fome of the more re- 

 markable difcoveries that had lately been made 

 in natural hiftory and philofophy fuch were 

 thofe relating to the Polype Rattlefnake^ and the 

 Senega^ &:c. ; among others alfo, he mentions a 

 remarkable fa6b that had been communicated by 

 Sauvages of Montpelier^ refpeding the efFed of the 

 berries of the Coriaria myrtifolia^ Spec. pL 1467 

 (Myrtle-leaved Sumach) in occafioning inftant 

 epilepfy. 



The three orations of Linn/eus are fubj.oined 

 to the fecond volume of the Ammitates Academic^^ 

 printed in 1752. 



In 1745, the profeflbr publiflied his Flora 

 SuEcicA exhihens Plant as per Regnum Sueci^ cref- 

 centes^ fyfiematice cum differentiis fpecierum^ fynonymis 

 autorum^ nominihus incolarum^ fob locorum^ ufu 

 Pharmacopceorum^ 8°, Holm. pp. 392, 1745 ; and 

 again, with many additions, in 1755, pp. 464; 

 The firfl: edition contains 1140 plants. In the 

 fecond they are increafed, by his own, and the 

 difcoveries of his pupils, to 1296. No generical 

 charadlers are introduced into this work, but re- 

 ferences made to them as they ftand in the Genera 

 Plantarum^ before fpoken of. A number of fele6t 

 fynonyma is added to his own fpecific name, under 

 each plant and not only the SwediJIj names in 

 general, but the provincial onQs : highly worthy this 

 of imitation in works of this kind, and quite ne- 

 ceflary in fo extenfive a kingdom. Many of the 

 rare plants are defcribed at large, and botanical 

 criticifms added to many others. In the laft edi- 

 tion the author has interfperfed a great number 

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