eight pounds Jlerling, for his travelling ex- 
pences. He was abfent about a year and a 
half, in which time he walked 4000 miles. 
Soon after his return, he publifhed his Flora 
Laponica, in which the plants were arranged 
and defcribed according to his own new 
, fyftem. 
In the year 1735, he began his journey to 
Holland, where, on the recommendation of 
the great Boerhaave, he was patronized by 
Mr. Clifford, whofe botanical garden he 
fuperintended, and at whofe expence he 
travelled to France and England. In 1738, 
he returned to Stockholm, where he mar- 
ried and fettled as a phyfician. In 1741, he 
was appointed ProfefTor of Botany at Up- 
fala. In 1753, he was created Knight of the 
Polar Star, and, three years after, enobled. 
He died in 1778, aged 71. 
The diftin&ion of male and famale plants 
was, by no means, the invention of Linnasus. 
It is as old as Empedocks, who wrote a book, 
De natura et principiis Rerum> about the 75th 
Olympiad, in which, as we learn of Arif- 
totle, he fpoke of plants as being oviparous, 
and hermaphrodite. An Olympiad, you 
know, was a period of 4 years, by which 
the Greeks computed time: this Empedocles, 
P there- 
