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ufual good effedts, and the patient died. The author 

 mentions a fuccefsful cafe of the admin ifbration of 

 the Senega in Sweden, He concludes with defcant- 

 ing on the Pfylli of the Eaft, or the Charmers of 

 Serpents j and tells us that M. Jacquin of Vienna 

 purchafed a fecret of this kind in the IVeJi Indies, 



1 13. Termini BoTANicr. J. Elmgren. 1762. 



This paper is incapable of abridgment ; it is ^ 

 methodical arrangement and complete explanatior^ 

 of all the terms^ amounting to 673, ufed in defcri- 

 bing plants, according to the Linn^an method of 

 botany. Somewhat of the fame kind was begun 

 in the Hortus Cliffortianus^ and is alfo prefixed to 

 the enlarged editions of the Syjlem, Thefe terms alfo 

 neceffarily occur, and are explained, in our author's 

 Philofophia Botanica, In this paper the whole is 

 amplified, improved, and methodiled in fo excellent 

 a manner, that no one who would gain precife ideas 

 on the fubject would wifli to be without it. 



114. Planta Alstromeria. 7. p. Fdk, 1762. 



This plant is of American origin, and belongs 

 to the Hexandrous clafs and Monogynous order of the 

 Syftem, There are three fpecies, the two firft of 

 which were defcribed and figured by Pere Feuillee 

 in Peru^ who ranked them with the Hemerocallis^ or 

 Day Lily. Linn^us received the feeds of this 

 fingular and beautiful plant from Cadix^ by means 

 of C. AlfiromeTy fon of a gentleman of that name, 

 counfellor of the College of Commerce in Sweden ; 

 and finding it a new genus, gave it his name. 



5 . The 



