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tinued to the time of Linn^us, who effefted that 

 great reformation in the whole fcience, by which 

 it is fixed as on a new bafis. The conclufion of 

 this paper contains fome information relating to 

 the introduflion of figures cut in wood for the old 

 herbals ; whence it appears, that Plantin^ the fa- 

 mous printer of Antwerp^ monopolized almoft all 

 the figures of this kind during his time, and be- 

 came the principal printe^n his day tor botanical 

 books. By fuch means Norton^ the primer of 

 Gerard*^ herbal^ procured from Frankfort all the 

 figures we fee in his book, which had before 

 ferved for an edition of f ah^rmmont anus's herbal 

 in 1588. 



48. Demonstrationes Plantarum. J. G. Hojer. 



Intended principally for the ufe of thofe pupils 

 who attended the botanical leclures in the Upfal 

 garden, confiding chiefly of a lift of the exotics 

 therein cultivated, as they ftood in this year, 

 amounting to near 1450 diftind fpecies, which, in 

 59 <^^g- 5^ latitude, is no inconfiderable 



number j all double flowers and varieties being 

 entirely excluded. After the invention of trivial 

 names, this lift is the firft fpecimen of the ufe of 

 them in forming compendious catalogues, and is at 

 once an evidence of the utility of them. There is an 

 obfervation in this paper which may appear fomewhat 

 paradoxical to fome readers : feveral of the plants 

 that are natives of fouthern Europe^ produced feeds 

 this year, without fliQwing any corolla j fuch were 



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