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80 The Floral King.
Linnzus’ book, “ Systeme Nature,” to be printed and
published at his own expense. This, his great work
formed quite an epoch in Natural History, and
gradually, during successive editions, became, by
Linnzus, so much enlarged, that the twelfth and
last edition published in Stockholm, 1766-68,
reached 2,300 pages. Many different translations
and extracts and adaptations have, from time to
time, been published in many lands, amongst others,
one in Batavia, between 1770-80, by a society
which had translated the nomenclature into the
Malay tongue.
Gronovius himself was, at this period, engaged in
determining and describing the herbs and plants
which J. Clayton had gathered in Virginia, which
now, with the assistance of Linnzus, were arranged
according to his sexual system. Linnzeus and van
Rogen also became friends.
Also with John Lawson, a learned Scotsman,
Linnzus became acquainted, probably the author of
“History of Carolina,” containing the exact de-
scription and natural history of that country,
London, 1709-19, and all these learned gentlemen
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