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genera curat ^ vel intelligit praterquam Dillenius'^ 

 probably, therefore, dedicated to him his next 

 publication, the Critica Botanica, in qua No- 

 mina Plantarum generica^ et fpecifica^ et variantia exa- 

 mini fubjiciuntur^ fele£iiora confirmantur^ indigna re- 

 jiciuntur^ fmulque do^irina circa Denominationem Plan- 

 tarum traditur, Lugd. Bat. 1737, 8°, pp. 270. This 

 is a large comment upon the 7th, 8th, 9th, and loth 

 parts of the Fundamental from Aphorifm 2 10 to 324 

 inclufive ; in which he has amply explained all his 

 reafons for thefe alterations ; and there were at that 

 time many who faw the juftice of his remarks. 

 Ludwig fays, when fpeaking of this work — " rigo- 

 rofus quidem, fed fepijjime f^lix hotanicorum cenfor eji'^ 

 The work is rendered very applicable to ufe, by 

 two excellent indexes. 



LiNNi^:us printed, at the end of this volume, 

 Difcurfus de introducenda in fcholas et gymnafia Hifto- 

 ria naturalis leElione^ pp. 24, written by Dr. Bro- 

 wallius^ who afterwards defended very ably the 

 fyftem of Linnaus againft profefTor Siegejbeck 'of 

 Peterjburgh, 



In 1737 was likewife publifhed the moft fplendid 

 of all our author's writings, the Hortus Cliffortianus 

 Plantas exhihens quas in Hortis tar/i vivis quam ftccis^ 

 Hartecampi in Hollandia^ coluit Vir Nob, et Gen. Geor- 

 gius Clifford^ J. U, D, redu^is varietatibus ad /pedes, 

 fpeciebus ad genera^ generibus ad clajfes^ adje5lis locis 

 plantarum natalibus^ differ entiif que fpecierum. Amft. 

 1737, fol. pp. 501, t. 32. As this book was 

 printed at the expence of Mr. Clifford^ it is orna- 

 mented with an elegant frontifpiece, and adorned 

 with fome of the fineft engravings of plants that 



are 



