gS BOTANICAL REFORM. 
sterdam on 372 o&avo pages, which from motives of gratitude he de- 
dicated to that learned body of his country. The plants were described 
in it agreeable to the new sexual system, with a special index of their 
native soil, and their utility in medicine and husbandry, and embel- 
lished with a striking representation of fifty-eight of the most curious 
plants, on twelve large copper-plates, engraved at the expence of that 
academy. In the introduftion the author gave a brief physico-geo- 
gtaphical description of Lapland , and^in the work itself many interest- 
ing remarks on the manners, diseases, and mode of living of the in- 
habitants, interspersed with other miscellaneous striftures. At the so- 
licitation of Gronov, he permitted one of the Lapponian plants, 
called campanula serpillifolia , to be, after his own name, denominated 
Linncea, and represented on a plate of that work*. — An honour which 
he so well deserved ! 
Linnaeus soon after conferred similar honours on other celebrated 
men, in the valuable work by which the obje£t of his residence at Har- 
tccamp was completed, and a flattering monument raised to the name 
of his patron. This was the description of Cliffort’s garden, Hor- 
tus Cliffortiams , printed at Amsterdam, on 501 pages in folio. It was 
first intended to be published in quarto, and some sheets still in the pos- 
session of Doftor J. E. Smith at London , printed off in that form, 
corroborate this assertion. The size was, however, soon found im- 
proper and inconvenient, and Cliffort spared no expence to bring 
forth the repertory of his treasures in a most elegant shape. The re- 
presentations of the plants were engraved on thirty-two plates, by the 
* This plant which is generally called Linneea Borealis, has been engraved in the frontis- 
piece, after nature, from a specimen which the Translator procured of Dr. J. E. Smith, 
the proprietor of the Linn^as collections. 
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