NOTES. 
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printed, notwithstanding its having been originally intended for pub- 
lication. On the back of the title of the nianusciipt is a dedication to 
Rudbeck the patron of Linnaeus. He says in the preface, that he 
wrote the work, by the desire of his audience, to save them the trouble 
of writing down the names of plants, perhaps erroneously, during his de- 
monstrations. He also speaks in it with praise of his father’s garden at 
Stenbrohult, on account of the great number of rare plants contained i ” it- 
Linn aus had, therefore, already laid the foundation to his system, at 
least in 1729. But the system according to which he wrote his Hor- 
tus Uplandicus, is only a rough sketch, widely different from the sub- 
sequent arrangement, as well in th 'asses of which he counts twenty- 
one, and in their names. He refers on this account to his Nuptir. 
Plantarum , and apologizes for not having given any Differentia Spe- 
cijicce of the plants, which he promises to do in the second edition. 
I have this work in my possession in the author’s own manuscript. 
Thus it appears, that the said Nuptiae Plantarum were written be- 
fore the year 1730. I have also a copy of it in the author’s own hand- 
writing, which has been written at a later period. It is entituled Caro.li 
Linn.£i Alumni Wrediani Extraord. M. C. Nuptiie Plantarum, in quB 
bus Sy sterna Vegetabilium Universale a Staviimbus et Pistillis, sive sexu i: . 
desumtum, secundum classes, seUiones, etnomina genenca brevissime 
proponitur. Stockholmix, 1733, one sheet, inoHavo. ( Compare this with 
the note, page 319 and 320). That this latter work does not contain 
the first plan, but is full of alterations, appears from its great con- 
cordance, with the first edition of. the System of Nature, in which the 
table exhibiting the animal reign, agrees with tht He pamphlet, except 
a few trifling passages. The system itself has 01 wenty-three classes. 
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