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plants for an Hortus Siccus : thofe of former cele^ 

 brated botanifts enumerated. A method, perhaps 

 more curious than ufeful, of calling an artificial 

 plant, by forming a mould with plaifter over a 

 real plant placed in a veffel, then burning the in- 

 clofed plant to aflies, which are to be ihook out, 

 and the cavity filled with melted fil\^er. 



This little trad has been publifhed in Hollandy 

 for the ufe of merchants who deal in the fubjeds of 

 natural hiftory ; and fomething of the fan^e kind 

 has been lately done here. 



AMCENITATES AC ADEMICiE. 

 Vol. IV. 1760. pp. 600. 



51. Plant^^: Officinales. N, Gahn. 175^.' 



The fcope of this paper is entirely pbarmaceuti- 

 fa! ; and howfoever it may be fuperleded at prefent, 

 it muft have been very ufeful at the time of its pub- 

 lication, having been drawn up for the benefit of the 

 apothecaries in Sweden^ in confequence of fome new 

 regulations intended by the royal coileg- phy- 

 ficians, under the prefidentfliip of Dr. Bceck : and 

 it was alfo highly acceptable to others, as being 

 probably the firfl; lift of the medicinal plants, to 

 which the Linnaan fynonyms had been accommo- 

 dated. This paper contains, 



I. A catalogue of the vegetable fimples of the 

 Materia Medica^ amounting to near 580, fpecify- 

 ing the parts of each ufed in medicine ; to which 

 is oppofed the Linn^an generical and trivial fpe- 

 (ific name, from the Species Plant arunfk\ marking 



alfo. 



