zgiS THE LIFE OF THE YOUNGER LINN^US. 



the possession of which was coveted by many. It was originally pr6- 

 jefted to enrich it with a most valuable addition; this was the Genera 

 Muscorum of the celebrated Ehrhart. But this insertion was not 

 made; either because Linnaeus found it too laborious a business to 

 attend to it, as he designed to get an edition of the Supplementum Plan- 

 tarxim printed at London ; or, what appears more probable, because the 

 English persuaded him to omit the Genera Muscorum, as they could not 

 at that time see the merits of the discoveries of Mr, Ehrhart, in their 

 proper light. 



The Supplementum contained and described ninety-three genera and one 

 thousand three hundred and three species of plants. The son imitated the 

 father, in not adopting, as his own, the supposed definitions and descrip- 

 tions of others ; and in not describing as new any plants which he had 

 not seen himself, and in a more particular manner got acquainted with. 

 He also honoured the memory of several of his countrymen, a Falk, 

 a Tern STROEM, a MoNTiN, a Retzius, an Eckkberc, a Sparr- 

 MANN, and a Thunberg, either by naming plants after them, or by 

 adopting those names, which had already been assigned to them by 

 others. 



Besides his leftures, he also gave other proofs of his literary activity 

 in different dissei'tations, which were defended under his auspices. He 

 described some new genera oi^ grasses, and published a treatise upon the 

 lavenders, and some new elucidations respetling the fruftification of the 

 mosses *. 



Long 



* Dissertatio illustrans Nova Graminum Genera; Resp. D. E. N^zen ; Upsal, 1779.— 

 Dissert, de Lavandula, Respond. J. D. Lundmark, Upsal, 1780.— Methodus Muscorura 

 Illustrata, Resp. 01, Schwarz, Upsal, 1 781.— These dissertations may be seen in the Jm^. 



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