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LINNAEUS’S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF. 
44 already been collected by him in a little work, which appeared last 
44 December, 1771, with the following title: 
44 Hortus Uplandicus, sive Enumeratio Plantarum Exoticarum Up- 
44 landise quas in hortis vel agris coluntur, imprim? 3 autem in horto aca- 
44 demico, Upsaliensi. The author of this work expresses himself 
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44 in the Preface as follows — 44 Secutus sum,” says he, 44 methodum 
44 propriam et artificialem, a staminibus et pistillis , quod sexum vo- 
64 cant, desumtam. Incertas seu classes et se&iones stirpes exoticas, 
44 in hortis Uplandice repertas dispescuit,in classibus statninum, in sedi- 
44 onibus pistillorum rationem habet.” In other resptds, the author 
44 has also assigned to most of the plants new and particular names, and 
44 added to each of them their synonyma. He has also found it abso- 
« lutely ecessary to alter some general denominations. The work 
44 consists of ten sheets, in odavo.” 
44 Upsal , Fsbruary 15, 1732. 
44 AN able student of medicine*, Mr. Charles Linnaius, causes 
44 a botanical work to be printed here, entituled: Fund amenta Bo- 
44 tanica, which is to consist of the following twelve partst. In the 
44 first part, he relates in a quite novel and masterly manner, the botanical 
* See Hamburglscbe Berichten, 1732, No. XII. Page 94. 
■f The Fundamento Bctanua did not appear till four years after, namely, in 1736, at 
Amsterdam. Linnaeus sent the mauitscript afterwards to Gre'tfs'walde, but could not find 
a person that would undertake to publish it. This shows, how early Linnaeus prepared 
his system, what alterations he made in the Fundamenta Botanica , — and at the same time, 
how eager he was to make himself known, even by advertising works which still remained, 
in manuscript. 
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