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fpecies of which, fingular for the elegant form of 

 the heads, had been firft difcovered by an Engltjh.- 

 fnan^ in Norway^ and communicated to Mr. Petiver. 

 There ^re three others, of which a lefs fpecious 

 kind is not uncommon on our bogs in England, 



Mr. Montin^ in this journey, had an opportu- 

 nity of confirming an opinion, which Linn/eus 

 had before conceived, relating to the caufe of a 

 moft excruciating colic^ to which the Laplanders. 

 ^re often fubjedled, and which he defcribes very 

 particularly in the Flora Lapponka, p. 69. when 

 treating of the Angelica^ which, ^mong other 

 fimples, is ufed as a remedy. Mr. Montin thinks 

 it clear, that it arifes from fwallowing in their 

 waters the Gordius Jquaiicus^ a fpecies of worm dc- 

 fcribed in the Fauna Suecica., N*^ 2068, well known 

 to Gefner^ and the older writers, under the name 

 of VHulus Aq^uatieus^ and Seta Aquatica^ as being 

 jio thicker than a horfe hair. 



27. Semina Muscorum. p. J, Bergius, 1750. 



Dr. BergiuSy fince profeflbr of pharmacy and 

 natural hiftory at Stockholm^ has, in this tradt, 

 thrown conf;derable light on the fructification of 

 the fecond order of vegetables in the Cryptogamia 

 clafs : much more however has been done fince the 

 time he wrote, and it is now thought that the tribe 

 of MoITes have feparate male and female flowers ; 

 the former of which ufually ftand on long 

 pedicles , the latter are as yet, in mofl. genera^ 

 very obfcurely invefligated : and Linnaeus him* 

 felf appears to be doubtful, whether the ^uft which 



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