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the attention of medical ftudents in general, and 

 cfpecially of thofe who wifh to con^.prehend the 

 Linnaan theory of phyfic. 



To this volume of the Amm'itates are fubjoined 

 the three orations of Linn^us, which, as they 

 make part of his own proper works, have been 

 fpoken of in the foregoing pages of this volume* 



AMOENITATES ACADEMICS. Vol. IIL 

 1756. pp, 464. 



31. Nova Plantarum Genera. Z. J, Chenon. 



1751. 



Chiefly a defcription of new genera and fpecies of 

 plants, brought from North America by Dr. Kalm^ 

 who had fpent three years in that country. Pre- 

 vious to the defcriptions, we have a brief mention 

 made of thofe who had treated upon the plants 

 of North America before Kalm. Thefe were Cor- 

 nutus^ the firft writer, in 1625 ; Banifter^ in Raf^ 

 hiftory^ 1680; Pkkenet^ in 1691 j Bohart^ in 1699; 

 Ray^ in his fupplement, 1704; Catejhy^ i73ii 

 Gromvius^ or rather Clayton^ 1739 Dr. Mitchell^ 

 1748 ; Governor Colden^ i743- By the induftry 

 of thefe writers, botany had been augmented with 

 77 new genera^ to which Kalm added eight. As 

 Dr. Kalm's plants are all now received into the 

 Syftem, any further account of this paper is fuper- 

 feded. A plate is added, on which are engraven 

 feven of the rarer fpecies. 



32. Plants 



