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of thofe articles of exotic luxury, which the opu- 

 kot nations of Europe import from diflant parts of 

 the world. It is happily not an obje6l of importance, 

 much lefs of neceffity, to confult fuch a catalogue 

 in this nation ; but it would be matter of pleafure 

 and furprife to many, to fee the great number of ve- 

 getables, which, in a country from its fituation far 

 from fertile, may fupply the want of bread. The 

 fubjedts of this trad amount to 127, many of 

 which would demand a place in an economical 

 berhaly adapted to a much milder climate. 



35. Euphorbia. J. Wiman, 1752. 



A complete botanical hiftory of one of the moll 

 cxtenfive genera of plants, feveral of which have a 

 place in the Materia Medica^ which, in the Lin- 

 naan fyftem, Hands in the Do decandrous clafs, and 

 furnifhes greater inftances of anomalies in the ha- 

 bit of the fpeciesy than perhaps is elfewhere to be 

 inet with % as it contains not only the Euphor- 

 iium^ the Efuhy and Cataputia of the fliops, but 

 alfo all the ^ithymali^ or Spurges, of authors. 

 Fifty-three fpecies are defcribed in this dilTertation, 

 and their fynonyms delivered, together with a 

 general account of their ufes in phyfic. In the 

 Species Plantarum this genus is augmented to the 

 number of 62 kinds, to which probably more 

 might be added from Burman's Flora Indica. At 

 this day, the Euphorbia are but little ufed inter- 

 nally, fcarcely ever : their extreme acrimony, and 

 draftic powers, being too unmanageable. 



36. Materia 



