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landers prepared from a part of this tree : their 

 nniverfal remedy in painful difeafes. 



N° 345. The leaves of Sparganium mtans^ Bur- 

 reed, preferred by horned cattle and horfes to other 

 grafs. Obfervations on the immenfe number of 

 Water Fowl^ and Waders^ in Lapland^ and on their 

 migration. 



N** 395. Ufes of the Polytrichum commune^ or 

 Golden Maidenhair j and N° 415, thofe of the 

 Sphagnum Paluftre^ or Bog-Mofs, among the Lap* 

 land women ; to which he has annexed fome curious 

 obfervations relating to the ftate of the menftrual 

 evacuations in the fex, in thofe northern regions. 



■ N° 437. Obfervations on the rein-deer, and their 

 food, the Lichen rangiferinus. 



N** 445. On the Lichen ijlandicus^ on which 

 M. Scopoli has of late written largely. 



N** 517. In treating on the Agarics, he recites 

 the baneful effects of the Oeftrus 'Tarandi^ Gadrfly, 

 on the whole economy of the rein-deer. More 

 largely difculTed in the Amcenitates, — -^Buc to re- 

 turn : 



In this work, moreover, our author has firft 

 exemplified, what he ever afterwards laboured to 

 bring to its greateft perfection, in all his writings, 

 and particularly in the Species Plantarum^ a work 

 not publifhed till fixteen years afterwards, the fpe- 

 cific names of plants^ not taken, as had been cuftom- 

 ary with former authors, from the colour of the 

 flower, relative fize of the plant, fmell, tafte, place 

 of growth, time of flowering, name of the dif- 

 coyerer, virtues, ufes, duration \ none of which are 



fufficiently 



