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A general view of the writings of Linnæus / By Richard Pulteney.

  • Richard Pulteney
Date:
1781
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A general view of the writings of Linnæus / By Richard Pulteney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pia] are extant, the drawings for which were made with all poffible accuracy by the late Mr. Ehret. By brated botanifts received a prefent of this book. How rich this garden was in plants, the book will teftify. They are arranged, as in all our author’s fucceeding works, in the fexual method ; the varie- ties are reduced to their feveral fpecies, the natural places of the plants are particularly noticed, many new genera, and fpecies under former genera, are introduced, with their defcriptions at nabek and curious obfervations interfperfed throughout the whole. And, what muft have been more efpeci- ally acceptable to thofe who began to relifh our author’s fyftem, was, the farther exemplification of his fpecific charaéiers, which the vaft number of plants included in this work neceffarily led to. Add to this, that from the copious number of fynonyms, it is almoft a pinay of every plant therein mentioned; and on this account, as well as others, will yet retain its value, though fuperfeded in a great degree by the Species Plantarum. To the curious and Critical botanift alfo it is no {mall fatisfaction now, to fee in this volume, compared with later works, the progrefs of the author’s own knowledge, manifeft by the removes and altera- tions that better information enabled him to make. In the dedication our author enumerates thofe patrons who have cultivated botanical gar- dens fo greatly to the emolument of the fcience; he gives a lift of the Ciiffortian library, and an- nexes two tables, with explanations of all the yariety of leaves, according to his new method