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68. Flora Alpina. N. N» Amann. 1756. 



The alps of Europe produce a fet of vegetables 

 very different from, and incapable of culture in, 

 the lower fituations. The author of this trad, 

 who was a native of one of the provinces border- 

 ing on the alps of Lapland^ with a laudable zeal 

 for the improvement of his country, enquires what 

 kinds of veo-etables might be cultivated in thofe 

 defart reo-ions to the moft advantage, where fo 

 few thrive, where Ihrubs fcarcely ever attain even 

 a moderate fize, and where a tree will hardly grqw 

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To this end; he firfl enumerates all the alpine 

 parts of Europe^ and gives a lift of 400 plants pe- 

 culiar to thofe fituations. He expreffes a wifh, 

 that at the royal, or public expence, a garden 

 might be planted in the alps^ to determine 

 with precifion what exotic plants would bear 

 introdu6lion into Lapland ; and concludes by 

 pointing out fome of the efculent and medicinal 

 Jcinds, as alfo fome that are applicable to dyeing, 

 and other arts, which he thinks might be culti- 

 vated to advantage in that northern region. 



69. Flora Pal^stina. B. J. Strand, 1756. 



Many commentators have employed themfelves 

 in determining the plants of the facred writings, 

 among whom none are thought to have been more 

 fuccefsful than the late learned ProfelTor Olaus Cel- 

 fiws^ in his Hierohotanicon ; who was not only well 

 qualified by his fi^ill in the learned languages, and 



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