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REiMARKABLE OCCURRENCES 



There was no country in Europe of which he he did not possess the 

 most remarkable vegetable produftions. His Swedish herbril was com- 

 pleter than that of any of his predecessors. His pupils Bergius and 

 MoNTiN, and others already mentioned, augmented these treasures. 

 The northern plants were seen flourishing by the side of those which 

 grow in the hottest climates of the South. From Italy he received 

 plants of Dr. Kaehler of Alstroemer, and Dr. Turra at Vicenza; 

 from Venice of the Imperial Minister Rathgeb and others; from 

 Switzerland of Gesner; from France of Seguier at Pero7i7ie, and of 

 De Sauvages at Montpellier^ who procured him likewise the herbal of 

 the celebrated botanist Magnol; from Spain and Portugal o^ Loef- 

 LER and several Spanish botanists; from Iceland of Koenic, his pupil; 

 from Great Britain, Denmark, Holland and Germany, of the numerous 

 friends and acquaintances he had in those respeftive countries. 



Among the foreign rarities which he transplanted and cultivated in 

 the North, a Chinese plant was the most remarkable, as it had never 

 yet been seen in Europe. This was the tea-shrub*. Linnaeus had 

 endeavoured many years to get possession of it ; and took pains to 

 raise it from seeds : he also hoped to obtain it by professor Gmelin 

 ■with the Russian caravans from China, but in vain; Osbeck, some time 

 after brought the tea-shrub with him as far as the Cape of Good Hope, 

 where it was lost. The wish of LiNNitus was however finally accom- 

 plished by his friend Capt. Eckeberg. This Swedish navigator, at 

 his departure from China, had put tea-seeds in a flower-pot, which 

 throve so well during the voyage, that Linn^us had the pleasure to 

 receive a green tea-shrub at Upsal on the third of October, 1763. 



•,;AmcEmtat. Academic. Dissertat. Potus These, A. P. C. Tillaeus, 1765, vol. viii. 



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