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wc obferve in the heads of mofTeSj is the Pollen 

 4ntherarum^ or the f^ds themfelves. 



28. Materia Medica e Regno Animai^j. 

 K. J. Sidren, 1750. 



This enumeration contains 67 fubjeds, and is 

 executed exactly on the plan of our author's Ma^ 

 tcria Medica e Plantis^ of which we have before 

 fpoken. 



29. Pj.ant^ Camschatgenses rasliores, 

 J, p. Halenius, 1750. 



A defcription at large of 26 new Siberian plants, 

 fent to Linnaeus by Dr. Gmelin, who had fpent 

 almoft 10 years, by the con^mand, and at the 

 expence, of the Emprefs of Rujfta^ in inveftigating 

 the natural hiftory of that kingdom. Amongft 

 thefe, we may particularly remark that foetid plant, 

 called Cimicifuga fmida (Syfb. Nat. ii. 659,) fo 

 pffenfive, and even poifonous, to thofe infedls from 

 which it receives its name. A decodion of this 

 draftic herb is ufed in Siberia (as Gmelin informs 

 us, Flor, Sib, iv. p. 183.) with great fuccefs in 

 dropfies. 



It is a curious remark which is fuggefted by our 

 author, that in journeying eaftwards in Kamtchatka^ 

 - the botanift fees his nearer approach towards 

 North America^ by the habit of many of the plants ; 

 and hence arofe a prefumptive proof of the vici- 

 nity of the two continents, before real difcoveries 

 |i^d confirmed the truth of it. The author has 



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