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86 LINNAEUS IN HOLLAND. 
Leyden, and Cliffort at Hartecamp. Though it contained soms 
imperfe&ions, yet there was not a completer nor better digested reper- 
toiy extant to that period. Linnaeus gave in it a system of botanical 
researches, divided into sixteen classes, extraded from upwards of 
1000 books, all the materials being systematically arranged. 
The publication of the third work of Linnaeus was occasioned by 
a rare foreign plant in Cliffords garden. This was the banana tree 
(Musa Par adisica), the blossoms of which had only once or twice ap- 
peared in Europe. He gave a better and more methodical description 
of it under the title of Musa Cliffortiana, Florens Hartecampi , 
prope Harlemum , Lugd.Batav. forty-six pages in quarto, with two plates, 
one of which exhibits the whole plant, the other its parts of fru&ifica- 
tion. 
These were the learned produaions of the diligence of Linnaeus 
in 173 6. With them was diffused his celebrity; while his innovations 
attraaed universal notice. But nobody could then suspea that great 
revolution which was to subvert the domination of Tournefort, 
and to hurl down with it so many grandees and plebeians in the 
republic of botany. The Germans did justice to the egregiousness 
and merits of our Swede, and the Imperial academy of naturalists at 
- r.enna , which is one of the most ancient learned bodies, was the first 
of the foreign societies which admitted him that same year as a fellow- 
member, under the honourable title of Dioscorides the Second, 
names which have at all times been customary in that academy, and 
were made to keep pace with the celebrity of each member. 
The amenities of the summer of 1736 were considerably heightened 
for Linnaus, by a journey to England , which he undertook towards 
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