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plants 'y as alfo tlie firft of thofe compendious F/or^y 

 in which the newly-invented trivial names had 

 been exemplified, and which have fince been 

 much ufed, greatly to the emolument of the 

 fcience. 



The author firft difcuffes the utility of fucfi 

 local catalogues, and of adhering to the trivial 

 names : he then briefly defcribes the climate of 

 Britain, and its different foils and elevations, as 

 favouring the growth of particular plants enu- 

 merating fome of thofe which are peculiar to Eng- 

 land ; and in what way thofe of Sweden differ from 

 ours. He fays Sweden abounds more in alpine^ 

 upland^ and wood-plants^ than England^ which ex- 

 cels in marine plants, and fuch as affed a chalky 

 foil, of which latter Sweden is almoft deftitute. 



Having given due praife to the Englijh botanifts, 

 and particularly to Mr. Ray, he fubjoins the cata- 

 logue ; in which there is a reference from each 

 Uinn^ean name, to the plant as it ftands in the 

 laft edition of i^^j's Synopfis by Billenius, This 

 i^/^r<^ contains nearly a thoufand plants, theMoffes 

 and Fungi not being introduced. Such as are not 

 found in Sweden^ are diftinguifhed by the Italic 

 type, and of thefe there are nearly three hundred* 

 A lift of upwards of an hundred, which the au- 

 thor could not inveftigate, concludes the whole. 



56. Herbarium Amboinense. O. Stickman, 1754. 



The Herbarium Amhoinenfe is one of the greateft 

 and moft magnificent botanic treafures the ivorld 

 ever faw j and which we owe to the fingular zeai 



and 



