PREFACE 
OF THE 
TRANSLATOR, 
T HE following pieces were feledted 
from many others published by fe- 
veral ingenious members of that great, and 
hitherto unrivalled fchool of natural hif- 
tory, the univerfity of Upfal in Sweden* 
under the prefidence of Linnaeus \ They 
A 3 were 
a Linnaeus Phil. Bot. p. 9. has thefe words, vid. 
diflert, npftra de ficu. Now there is a piece in Amsn. 
Acad. vol. 1. on this fubjedt, in which the matter 
referred to is contained. This piece goes under the 
name of Cornelius Hegardt, tho’ Linnaeus plainly quotes 
it 
