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the firft was that of Padua^ in 1540. The gar- 

 den of Upfal was founded in 1657, by Charles 

 Gufiavus^ under the diredion of the elder Rudheck. 

 How much this garden owes to Linn^us, we 

 have already faid, in the account of the catalogue 

 of plants publifhed by himfelf in 1748. This 

 hiftory of the antient and modern ftate of the 

 garden given by Naucler^ contains a variety of curi- 

 ous matter on the fubje6b, and is illuftrated with 

 a ground-plot and view of the garden j lifts of the 

 fucculent plants and others •, and, what is more 

 particularly acceptable^ the lives of the Rudbecks^ 

 father and fon, whofe literary fame is founded, 

 not on botany alone, but on anatomy, and the 

 knowledge of antiquities. s 



8. De Passiflora. J, G. Hallman. 1745. 



A very methodical hiftory of that beautiful and 

 much-admired genus of plants, which the Catho- 

 lics, who firft faw it in America^ and from the 

 fancied refemblance of the crofs which they per- 

 ceived in the flower, called PaJJion Flower ; and 

 which foon held a diftinguiftied rank in the Euro- 

 fean gardens. M. Hallman^ after a chronological 

 lift of thofe writers, who firft exhibited the feveral 

 fpecies, from Peter Ciltza and Monardes^ down to 

 DillemuSy defcribes at large 22 fpecies, and gives 

 their feveral fynonyms, adding afterwards a lift of 

 many which are dubious. He fubjoins the ufes, 

 which the natives of America make of thefe plants, 

 principally borrowed from Pifo. The whole is 

 0^2 ornamented^i' 



