172 CHAPTER 40. 
Welch plants were included. They are dif- 
pofed in the alphabetical order. The fi^ 
gures are of the natural fize as much as may 
be. The fynonyma of former authors are 
quoted and accompanied by copious critical 
examinations and obfervations, the better to 
afcertain the fpecies. Several new genera 
5ire eftablifhed, many of the new Gerania 
are iigured, and a very copious hiftory of 
the ge?iza Mefemhryanthemum given ; with a 
iynoptical view of all the fpecies/of which 
fifty-four are defcribed and figured in this 
work"^. 
We find by the lift of graduates, that 
Dill EN I us was admitted to the degree of 
Dodor of Phyfic in &, Johns College, 
April 3, J735. 
In the fummer of 1736, Linn^us vifit- 
ed the Profeilbr at Oxford -y and, although 
DiLLENius did not relilh the fexual fyftem, 
about that time firft divulged, yet Lin- 
N^us returned with the higheft opinion of 
^ The plates of the Ihrim Eltha?nenfis were after- 
wards fold to a Dutch bookfeller; who caft ofF an impref- 
fion, accompanied with the deFioiiiinations only of the 
j|>ecies. This was done at Leyden in 1 7 74; and many 
copies have found their way into this kingdom. 
his 
