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REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES 
There was no country in Europe of which he he did not possess the 
most remarkable vegetable productions. His Swedish herbal was com- 
pleter than that of any of his predecessors. His pupils Bercius and 
Mon tin, and others already mentioned, augmented these treasures. 
The northern plants were seen flourishing by the side of those which 
grow in the hottest climates of the South. From Italy he received 
plants of Dr. Kaehler of Alstroemer , and Dr. Turra at Vicenza-, 
from Venice of the Imperial Minister Rathceb and others; from 
Switzerland, of Cesser; from France of Seguier at Pcronne, and of 
De Sauvages at Montpellier , who procured him likewise the herbal of 
the celebrated botanist Magnol ; from Spam and Portugal of Loef- 
ler and several Spanish botanists; from Iceland of Koenig, his pupil; 
from Great Britain, Denmark, Holland and Germany , of the numerous 
friends and acquaintances he had in those respective countries. 
Among the foreign rarities which he transplanted and cultivated in 
the North, a Chinese plant was the most remarkable, as it had never 
yet been seen in Europe. This was the tea-shrub *. Linn.eus had 
endeavoured many years to get possession of it ; and took pains to 
raise it from seeds : he also hoped to obtain it by professor Gmelin 
with the Russian caravans from China, but in vain; Osbeck, some time 
after brought the tea-shrub with him as far as the Cape of Good Hope, 
where it was lost. The wish of Linn.eus was however finally accom- ' 
plished by his friend Capt. Eckebekc. This Swedish navigator, at 
his departure from China, had put tea-seeds in a flower-pot, which 
throve so well during the voyage, that Linnaeus bad the pleasure to 
receive a green tea-shrub at Upsal on the third of Oftober, lybg. 
* Amoenitat. Academic, Dissertat. Potus There, A. P. C. TilUeus, 1765, vul. viii. 
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