434 NOTES. 



The Siegesheckia Orientalis is quite a beautiful plant, The AdanTonia 

 digitata is one of the finest and tallest trees, with an elegant flower. 

 The Pontederice are also neat looking plants, with handsome flowers. 



PAGE 181. 



Kalm made likewise an extensive tour in Russia, at his own expence. 

 These travels have not yet completely appeared, though the author 

 is dead. A Swedish literatus at Abo has been charged with publish- 

 ing in an abridgement that part which remains unprinted. But he has 

 not yet performed the task assigned to him. 



PAGE 195. 



The doftrine of Linnaeus, respefting the bastard-species in the ve- 

 getable reign, has enabled the celebrated M. Koelreutkr at St. Pe- 

 tersburgh, to produce a vast number of bastard-plants, and evea to 

 change one species into another, by means of an artificial fru6tification» 



See Nova Ada Academics Petropolitance. 



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It is a matter of the highest regret, that the Rones Specierum Planta- 

 rum Caroli Linn./EI, of which the Margravine Carolina Louisa 

 of Baden projefted a publication, has never appeared. The Princess 

 did not like execution of the work, which was interupted by the return 

 of the French artists, whom she employed, to their country. No more 

 than one hundred and thirty-eight plates were finished, and even 

 these never presented to the public. Linn.^us honoured the mensory 

 of the Margravine by the genus of the Carolinea. The first species 



2 or 



