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praediit Ellis1 opus de sertulariis quod 10. 6 p. venditur, nunc produnt tab*
a Millero promissae, non admodum accuratae. Ehretius, a quo Ehretiae
nomen a Trewio impositum fuit, edidit preter 12 tabulas splendidas et
acuratas quidem, nuper alteram Beureriae, satis accurate et pulchre
depictam. Ehretia vero planta est americana Jam® quidem, sed pentandra;
specimen cum aliis nonnullis data occasione transmittam.
fructus Volkamerise idem est, quem in Characteribus Clerodendri
describis: Bacca &c.
Hvmenseye Stamina distincta sunt, sed filamenta Bauhinise America?
coalita; Bombacis vero tantum quinque & malvacea. &c. &c. &c.
Vale Vir Celeberrime & perge me amare.
Londini 11 Mart. 1756.
Utanskrift:
Celeberrimo Societati Regice Scientiarum Suecice
qius TJpsalia est
Upsal in
Swedland.
Linn. Soc., Vol. II: 192—193.
1 John Ellis, se denna dei s. 103, not 8.
224.
I never coveted any Book, I know not by what Instinct, with
more ardour desire than yours; at length I understood that an
English Gentleman residing at Stockholm had got it; I intreated
him to lend it me for a fortnight, and obtained it. I spent day
and Night in reading it through, I read it over, but never enough
and returnd it. Good God how was I transported with desire of
a book inflnetly to be commended. Two things I particularly
ob-served therein which I have not met with in other Authors. The
first was the Authors most honest Candour and human
disposition; who is not sharp upon any, severe to non, nor enveighs
against olhers, as now the Gustom amongst the vulgar herd of
Authors, but condidly inculcates his own observations without
taxing others, because the could not see thesse things the wished
to inspect, but not in theire power. The other thing I noted was
the writers perspicuity, who has set forth his plants so correctly
and so exactly to the Life, that I could see as it were the very
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