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THE 
SWEDISH PAN. 
B Y 
NICOLAS HASSELGREN. 
Upfal, 1749* Decern. 9. 1 
Amaenit. Academ. vol. 2: 
§• I* 
4 
T HE antients attributed the paftoral life 
to Fan , the care of flowers to Flora , 
hunting to Diana , and the cultivation of grain 
to Ceres i We, tho’ acknowledging only one 
Deity, who governs all things, yet often life thefe 
names to denote the fubjedt we undertake to treat 
upon. What word is now more known among 
botanifcs than the word Flora ; by which they 
mean all thofe plants, which grow within a cer- 
tain compafs of ground ; as our Fauna Suecica 
Z a take& 
