384 LINNyiiUS'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF, 



" already been collefted by him in a little work, which appeared last 

 December, 1771, with the following title: 



« Hortus Uplandicus, sive Enuraeratio pjantarum Exoticarum Up- 

 " landia^ qu^ in hortis vel agris coluntur, imprimis autem m bono aca» 



" demico, Upsalicn^i. The author of this work expresses hirn.self 



" in the Preface as follows:" — " Secatus sum," says he, " methodum 

 " propriam et artificialem, d staminibus et pistillis^ quod sexum vo- 

 " cant, desumtam. Incertas seia classes et seftiones stirpes exoticas, 

 " in hortis Uplandicc repertas dispescuit, in classibus staminum, in sefti- 

 " onibus pistillorum rationem habet." in other respetls, the author 

 «' has also assigned to most of the plants new and particular namesi and 



added to each of them their synonyma. He has also found it abso- 

 " lutely necessary to alter some general denominations. The work 

 " consists of ten sheets, in oQ:avo." 



" Upsal, February 15, 1732. 



" AN able student of medicine*, Mr. Charles Linn^us, causes 

 *' a botanical work to be printed here, entituled: Fundamenta Bo- 

 " TAN I c A, which is to consist of the following twelve parts t. In the 

 " first part, he relates in a quite novel and masterly manner, the botanical 



* See Hamburghche Berichten, 1732, No. XII. Page 94. 



t The Fundamento Botanka did not appear till four years after, namely, in 1736, at 

 Amsterdam. Linnaeus sent the mauuscript afterwards to Greifsivalde, but could not find 

 a person that would undertake to .publish it. This shows, how early Linn^us prepared 

 his system, what alterations he made in the Fundamenta Botanka,— an^L at the same time, 

 how eager he was to make himself known, even by advertising works which still remained 

 in manuscript. 



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