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printed, notwithstanding its having been originally intended for pub- 

 lication. On the back of the title of the raanusciipt is a dedication to 

 RuDBECK the patron of Linnaeus. He says in the preface, that he 

 wrote the work, hy the desire of his audience, to save them the trouble 

 of writing down the names of plants, perhaps erroneously, during his de- 

 monstrations. He also speaks in it with praise of his fathers garden at 

 Stenhrohult, on account of the great number of rare plants contained in it. 

 LiNN.fius had, therefore, already laid the foundation to his system, at 

 least in 1729. But the system according to which he wrote his Hot- 

 tus Uplandicus, is only a rough sketch, widely diffeient from the sub- 

 sequent arrangement, as well in the classes of which he counts twenty- 

 one, and in dieir names. He refers on this account to his Nuptioe 

 Flantarum, and apologizes for not having given any Differentia Spe- 

 cijicce of the plants, which he promises to do in the second edition. 

 J have this work in my possession in the authors own manuscript. 



Thus it appears, that the said Nuptiae Plantarum were v;ritten be- 

 fore the year 1730. I have also a copy of it in the author's own hand- 

 writing, which has been written at a later period. It is entituled Caroli 

 LiNN^i Alumni Wrediani Extraord. M. C. NuptiiE Plantarum, inqui- 

 bus Systema Vegetabilium Universale a Stamimbus et Pislillis^ sive sexu, 

 desumtum, secundum classes, seQiones, et nomina generica brevissime 

 proponitur. Stoclholmicp, 1733, one sheet, ino61avo. (Compare this with 

 the note, page 319 and 320). That this latter work does not contain 

 the first plan, but is full of alterations, appears from its great con- 

 cordance, with the first edition of the System of Nature, in which the 

 table exhibiting the animal reign, agrees with the little pamphlet, except 

 a few trifling passages. The system itself has only twenty-three classes. 



1 I received 



