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Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Natural History, Husbandry, and Physick (History of Ecology)
Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Natural History Husbandry and Physick - History of Ecology Author:Carl Linnaeus Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: f ON THE FOLIATION of TREES) OR The time when they put put t;hejr leaves; ByHARALQ BARCK. U Ps A L, 1753. May 3. Amaen. Acad. vol. iii. BOta... more »nifts in every age have not only taken great pains to difcover and give names to plants, but have alfo defcribed them with all poffible accuracy. But this part of knowledg. has been, till this prefent age, confined to narrower bounds than it deferved ; for an opir nion has prevailed amongft almoft all the men of learning, that it is of no ufe out of the re- K 3 gionigions of medicine. From whence it has happened, that we find very few that have cultivated botany, but phyficians ; nor have even thefe carried their inquiries farther than to obtain a moderate knowledge of officinal plants. But in our times fome, who are worthy of the higheft regard from all true lovers of this ftudy, have endeavoured to find out and inveftigate the vertues of plants with greater care, and Induftry. For thefe men befides medical ufes have dilcovered great, and remarkable advantages accruing from fuch refearches. However i do not intend to give a catalogue of them here, but (hall content myfelr" with juft touching upon fome few things, that have been done in this way, in our own uni- verfity. In the Pkllofopbia Botanica our illu- ftrious prefident has fhewn, that every foil has its own peculiar plants, which we mould feck for in vain any where clfe ; and that certain plants keep, as it were, their watches, i. e. expand their flowers and clofe them again at ftated times'1. The diflertation on the ef- poitfals of fLints has imparted to the learned world the' uie of various phenomena, which ' Vid. Philof. Botan. p. 263, 273. Barck. This curious fubject is amply treated in Amm. A cad. vol. 4. occuroccur in the fcecundation of plants. The F...« less