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sterdam on 372 oftavo pages, which from motives of gratitude he de- 

 dicated to that learned body of his country. The plants were described 

 in it agreeable to the new sexual system, with a special index of their 

 native soil, and their utility in medicine and husbandry, and embel- 

 lished with a striking representation of fifty-eight of the most curious 

 plants, on twelve large copper-plates, engraved at the expence of that 

 academy. In the introdu£lion the author gave a brief physico-geo- 

 graphical description of Lapland, and in the work itself many interest- 

 ing remarks on the manners, diseases, and mode of living of the in- 

 habitants, interspersed with other miscellaneous stri£lures. At the so- 

 licitation of Gronov, he permitted one of the Lapponian plants, 

 called campanula serpillifolia, to be, after his own name, denominated 

 Linncea, and represented on a plate of that work*. — An honour which 

 he so well deserved ! 



LiNN^us soon after conferred similar honours on other celebrated 

 men, in the valuable work by which the objeft of his residence at Har- 

 tecamp was completed, and a flattering monument raised to the name 

 of his patron. This was the description of Clif fort's garden, Uor- 

 ius Cliffortianus, printed at Amsterdam^ on 501 pages in folio. It was 

 first intended to be published in quarto, and some sheets still in the pos- 

 session of Do£lor J. E. Smith at London^ printed off in that form, 

 corroborate this assertion. The size was, however, soon found im- 

 proper and inconvenient, and Clif fort spared no expence to bring 

 forth the repertory of his treasures in a most elegant shape. The re- 

 presentations of the plants were engraved on thirty-two plates, by the 



* This plant which is generally called Linnaa Borealis, has been engraved in the frontis- 

 piece, after nature, from a specimen which the Translator procured of Dr. J. E. Smith, 

 the proprietor of theLiNN^AN collections. 



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