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reducible to one fpecies, and diftinguifhed from 

 other congenerous animals, fuch as the wolf^ fox^ 

 hy^na^ &c. not only by the curvature of the tail, 

 which is ufually to the left, but by the difpofition 

 of the Suture Velleris^ or ridges formed by the . 

 meeting of the feveral courfes of hair on divers 

 parts of the body ; and the number and fituation 

 of the Verruca^ or warty rifmgs in the face. In 

 thefe diftindions, heretofore unnoticed, all the 

 varieties of this animal agree. Eleven varieties of 

 the J^'^-kind are here fpecified, after which the 

 properties and ufes, together with the whole of 

 the economy of this faithful animal, are fully fet 

 forth, and his difeafes defcribed. Our author 

 tells us, that the Laplanders and Dalekarlians are 

 in pofTeflion of fome fecret by which they inftantly 

 difarm the moil furious dog, and oblige him to 

 fly with all his ufual figns of fear, becoming filenc 

 at once, and dropping his tail. This art, how- 

 ever, is faid not to be unknown in England, 



54. Stationes Plantarum. a, Hedenberg, 1754. 



The intention of this paper is to prove, that 

 the knowledge of the Natale Solum^ the natural 

 places of growth of plants, is the true foundation 

 on which the art of gardening fuccefsfully muft 

 he built. The author laments that botanifts and 

 writers of Florae have been too remifs in their ob- 

 fervations of this kind ; v/hence numbers of exotic 

 feeds and plants have failed to produce flowers, or 

 to perpetuate themfelves in gardens. He mentions 

 g remarkable iaftance in the Nitrari^ Schoheri^ 



(Spec, 



