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^ CHAP. 52. 
LInnasus — vijts England — Cool reception of him 
hy Sir Hans Sloane — Dillenius Jenftble of his 
merit \ hut indifpofed to receive the fexual fyf- 
tern — Botany at this jun5iurt in a languid ft ate 
in England — Linnaeus'^ writings diffufed in 
England ahout the year 1740 — Gruf berg's 
Flora Anglica — Brown's Jamaica Plants — 
Stillingfleet's ^ra^s — Lee's Introduction — 
Hill's Flora Britannica — Hudfon's Flora 
Anglica — Dr. Solander — Linn^sus'j fyftem 
adopted in the public le5iures at Cambridge 
and at Edinburgh --and J fnally, received and 
eftablifhed in England. 
L I N N ^ U S. 
AS I am now arrived beyond the pe- 
riod, when the name of Lin us 
began to be celebrated throughout Europe^ 
it will be neceffary to recur to the circum- 
ftances of his vifit to this country, that 
the introduction and full eftablifhment of 
his fyftem in this kingdom, may be better 
iUuftrated. Here, had his reception been 
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