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whom the fex of plants is no longer a matter of 

 mere fpeculation. 



"The^ Potus^ in 1746. 



Scabiof^ nova Spedei Befcriptio, in 1744, after- 

 wards called by our author, in his Species Plant a- 

 rum, Scabiofa Tatarica. 



Pentborum, a new genus of plants, from Virgi- 

 nia^ defcribed and figured, in 1744. 



Cypriyii pinna ani radiis xi, pinnis alhentihus^ de- 

 fcriptio. (Cyprinus Griflagine, Syd. p. 529, J 

 A fifh of the lakes of Weft Bothnia. 



After the inititution of the Royal Academy of 

 Sciences at Stockholm., of which Linn^us was the 

 firft president, his communications were chiefly 

 made in the AEls of that body. In thefe the fol- 

 lowing papers occur. 



Cultura Plantarum Naturalis. Vol. I. for the 

 years 1739 and 1740. This is an attempt to re- 

 duce the art of gardening to fcientific principles. 



Gluten Lapponum e Per ca. ib. p, 221. 



Oejirus Rangiferinus., in 1740, p. 121. A de- 

 fcription, accompanied with figures, of the Gad- 

 fly, (Oeftrus Tarandi^ Syft. Nat. p. 969.) which 

 is bred under the fkin on the backs of the rein- 

 deer, and from which a third of the fawns not un- 

 frequently perifh. 



The Glue of the Perch is made from the (kins, 

 which are fcraped off, put into a bladder, and 

 boiled to a proper confiflence. 



Picus pedibus tryda^lylis. ib. p. 222* A defcrip- 

 tion of the three-toed Wood-pecker, before that 

 time unnoticed, fmce figured by Edwards^ tab. 



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