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with great art, and different degrees of dexterity^' 

 fo as to reward the fkilful hufbandman with a 

 much larger increafe of fruit than would other- 

 wife be produced. A tree of the fame fize, which, 

 in Provence^ where caprification is not pra6lifed, 

 may produce about 25 pounds of fruit, will, by 

 that art, in the Grecian iflands, bring ten times that 

 quantity. 



3. DissERTATio de Peloria. D. Rudherg* 1744. 



A defcription, with the figure, of a very ex- 

 traordinary variety of the common yellow 'Toad 

 FlaXy (Antirrhinum Linaria^ Sp. PI. 858.) which 

 was found in feveral parts of Sweden^ and fmce in 

 Germany^ and engaged the attention of the bota- 

 nifts very greatly at the time. Indeed its variation 

 is uncommonly fingular. The flower, inftead of 

 the ringent, tetrandrous flower of the Linaria^ with 

 a fingle, corniculated Ne^arium^ was found with 

 a regular, monopetalous, pentandrous tube, from 

 the bafe of which proceeded five Ne^aria ; yet, 

 uncommon as this proved, Linnaeus difcovered 

 it to be no other than a monfter, or hybrid plant, 

 fprung from the Linaria^ though it does not ap- 

 pear to this day that its origin on the other fide 

 has been fufficiently afcertained. The habit of 

 the plant, and its fenfible quality, agree with thofe 

 of the Linaria, 



4. CoRALLiis Balticis. H. Fougt. 1745. 



In this trad the author, after having traced the 

 hiftory of Corals from the remoteft period of natural 



hiftory. 



