586 LINNtEUS'S OWN ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF. 



"species of plants discovered, according to Tournefort's me- 

 " thod by several botanists, especially by Rivini, Pontedera, 

 " BoERHAAVE, BuxBAUM, Vaillant, &c. and reduces the two 

 " hundred new species of To URN E FORT to seventy-five. In the tenth, 

 " he mentions the synonynia, in what manner they are to be used, and 

 " what is to be observed in each of them. The eleventh, contains in- 

 " stru6tions how to arrange the description of plants, with suitable ex- 

 " amples by way of illustration. In the twelfth and last part he con- 

 " eludes with demonstrating, the great utility of the classes and orders 

 as arranged by Nature herself, how manifold they are, and what 

 " species of plants must be reckoned to each class." 



The Author prefixes the following advertisement to his work: " Haec 

 " omnia C. CXXX. regulis sive canonibus superstrufta, exemplisque 

 *' stabilita sunt. Observationes autem omnes avro-^ta auftoris nituntur. 

 " Earum in classes distributio a certa corporis parte desumitur, sec- 



tiones, charafteres generici prorsus nova methodo instituuntur, 

 " Nomina specifica nova unicuique tribuuntur, allegatis synonymis." 



Upsal, March 15, 1732. 



«< CHARLES LINN^US, the student of medicine, whose name 

 «' has already been several times mentioned in an honourable and flat- 

 " tering manner, is now occupied with two new works, which have 

 « never before been the objeft of the efforts of our learned men, but 



<« which. 



