ft was in confequence of this dedication to his great 
patron, that Teffimacls in the year following, caufed 3 
filver medal to be ftruck, with the creft of Linnasus on 
one fide, and on the other three crowns, on which the 
fun flieds his beams, with the fimple motto, illujlrat. 
His own fovereign likewife, king Adolphus Frederic, 
awake to his extraordinary merits, beftoweJ upon him 
frequent marks of his royal diftindlion. 
I I 
In the year 1750, he had fome fevere attacks of the 
gout: and himfelf relates, that accidentally refrefiiing 
himfelf with fome ftraw-berries, he felt himfelf relieved, 
and afterwards, whenever the fit recurred had recourfe to 
them, and eventually expelled it from his frame. 
In I 7 S*> publiflied his Philofophia Botanica, 
which Rofleau ’mentions as the moll philofophical book 
he had ever feen ; in 1753, appeared the firft edition of 
his immortal work the Species Plantarum, which he 
dedicated to the King and Qiieen of Sweden, and in 
which he deferibes 7,300 fpecies of plants ; and in the 
fame year he publiflied the Mufeum Teflinianum, or 
account of the natural rarities in Count Xeflin’s mufeum: 
in the year following appeared his Mufeum Regis Adol- 
f>hi, and in ten years afterwards the Mufieum ReginK 
Kouifae Ulrica;. The Amxnitates Academica; were 
begun in 174.9, and continued to 1769, making feven 
volumes, and containing one hundred and fifty diflertati- 
0ns, all on the history and economy of nature ; they were 
