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The Author of this book, according to the arrangement of Monf. Jufficu, in the botanical garden at Trianon, fixes the ftrawberry as a fpecies of the first fection of the family of the rofaceous: that is, of thofe plants whofe flowers refemble a rofe. Of this fpecies he diftinguifhes ten races, viz. fragaria femperflorens, fylveftris, hortenfis, flagellis, monophylla, viridis, mefchata, chiloenfis, ananalfa, & virginiana; all which, together with feveral varieties, particularly of the wood ftrawberry, are minutely defcribed in this volume. Among the varieties of the fragaria fylueftris, we find le fraifier de Plimouth, aftrawberry mentioned by most of the botanists of the laft century, and from them copied into the works of the moderns, though it seems at prefent not to exift. Linnæus makes it a diftinct fpecies, Hadfon only a variety. Ray, after Gerard, calls it fragaria fructu hifpido, rough ftrawberry, and adds, found by Jo. Tradefcant the elder in a woman's garden at Plymouth, whofe daughter gathered it abroad, and planted it there: pro lufu potius naturæ hanc habeo, quam pro fpecie diftincta. Gerard feems to have been the firft who mentioned this fpecies or variety; but the most minute defcription of it is that of Zanoni, published in 1675. Our countryman Parkinson, in his Paradifis Terreftris, tells us, that this ftrawberry differs principally from the common fort in bearing a green flower, and its fruit being covered with prickles, which do not however wound the tongue; that its tafte is not agreeable, but that it is pleafant to look upon; and that a handsome woman may very well, out of caprice, carry it in her hand inftead of a flower. An ordinary lady, we fuppofe, would not look well with it.

We shall now trauflate from our Author's remarques particu lières, the hiftory of the birth of the ftrawberry of Verfailles, above mentioned. In a little garden, fays he, which my father had bought, for the fake of experiments, having in the years 1760, and 1761, fowed fome feeds of the fragaria mejchata, we alfo fowed feeds of the common wood ftrawberry, which had, for feveral years together, been cultivated in that garden. Our only intention was to try whether red ftrawberries often produce white. But thefe having been transplanted too early, and afterwards neglected, moft of them died. Having failed in our experiment, the few that escaped continued unregarded till 1763, about their time of flowering, which in most of them was retarded till the year following. It was not till the 7th of July 1763, that we obferved, among thefe ftrawberries, one, of which all the leaves were fingle, instead of being palmated in three divifions. From that inftant we preferved, with the utmost care, all the offsets it produced, and in the fpring of the next year we were poffeffed of no less than fixty roots.'

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Having thus made choice of a proper fubject, you begin by fhaving and wafhing it all over with warm water. If the weather be cold, you are to bathe the body in hot though not boiling water. If you intend to inject all the arteries at one ftroke of the pifton, except the pulmonary artery, you begin by making a longitudinal incifion from the upper part of the fernum to the xyphoid cartilage, continuing it below the left breaft as far as four or five fingers breadth from the fernum. Having then detached the fkin, the fat, and the great pectoral muscle, you open the thorax, by cutting through three or four of the cartilages of the firft ribs, taking care not to cut the internal arteria mamaria. If it should be cut, you are to make a ligature.

The thorax being thus opened, you difcover the pericardium, through which you make a crucial incifion, in order to come at the pulmonary artery and the aorta, which you are to feparate one from the other, paffing a waxed thread, of many doubles, round the latter, into which you now make an orifice large enough to admit your tube. If there fhould be any coagulated blood or lymph, it must be first cleared away. The tube being introduced, the artery muft be tied faft round it, fo as not to flip when you come to inject.

If you want to inject the veins, you are to introduce your tube near their extremity, as in the faphena falvatella, or céphalica of the thumb. Veins may alfo be injected from the trunk to the branches, as in the vena porta; but this fucceeds only where there are few or no valves. If you intend to inject some detached part of the body, the veffels which are cut through must be carefully tied before you begin.

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N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, ja the
Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume

A.

BDOULRAHMAN, the Arabian
governor of Spain, brief ac-

unt of 492.

III., his
ndeur, 494
I complaint
unhappiness, ib.
ITY, in chemistry, full ac-
it of, 509-512.
ANDER, Mr. John, enco-
m on his chara&er, 443.
-Varnishes for Pap er Ma-
· 177·

CA, north, its interior parts,
ant of, 11. Plan for medi-
fhools in America, 124.
Q parallel between the
'aft years of her reign, and
our first of George III.

s, their natural impulfive
s difplayed, 373-
m on, by Mrs. Williams,

us,Emperor, his fuppofed
elating to the Thunder-
on, 38.

al Hiftory of that animal,
rious kinds of, and cu-
ies related of them; ib.
ir conquefts in Africa
П, 490. Books and
ts relating to, 491.
PERSON, preternatu-
nena, on opening the
ne, 63.

, the infcription on
to the unknown God,
431-434
B.
roll verfes relating to,
72. The bathing there
defcribed, 470.
the panegyrift of
ole, account of, 295.
Egyptian, their fruc-

.

ution raifed in that
the Author of a trea-
bufe of oaths, 547
XIV.

BETHLEHEM. Present date of that
place. 142.

BIBLE, a popelar work, 20. Is

unconred
dinere
g0, 203. The Catch-
y Commentators cn, leve e-

¡y cenfured, 314-
BISHOPS, their right to fit in Par-
liament as representatives of the
church, afferted, c:-Ad as
peers of the realm, 98.
BLACK, various forts of that co-
lour, 170, Compofition of that
produced from iron, 171; of
black paint with water, 1-4;
of indian ink, ib. Of dyg
woollen black, :80. Black with
galls, logwood, vitriol, 281.
Black dye with verdegris, 281
Of dying filk black, 283. Of
linnen and cotton, 284.
BOLINGBROKE Lord, his difpute
with Mofes, in the fhades, 49.
BOTANY, its usefulnefs, 127.
Boulogne, climate of, 421. In-

delicacy of the inhabitants, 422,
BROWN, Dr. his defence of him
felf, 59.
BULLINGER'S Confeffion of Faith,
551

BURNET, Bifhop, his expofition of
the 39 articles, curious enquiry
concerning that work, 335; not
a work of authority. 337-
BUTLER, Mr. his remarkable cafe,
61. Cure of, 62.

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