Miscellaneous tracts relating to natural history, husbandry, and physick / Translated from the Latin [of the 'Amoenitates academicae' of C. Linnaeus], with notes by Benj. Stillingfleet.

Date:
1759
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Credit: Miscellaneous tracts relating to natural history, husbandry, and physick / Translated from the Latin [of the 'Amoenitates academicae' of C. Linnaeus], with notes by Benj. Stillingfleet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    blow the ioth of the fame month. He fays* that the marfli-marygold blows when the cuckow ^Ings. According to my diary the marygold was in blow April the i yth, and tne fame day the cuckow fung. I have many other obfervations by me about the appearances of birds and the flowering of piants, but as they were made for one year only, and there are none of other authors to compare them, with i fhall not trouble the reader with them* P. 143. towards the bottom, in the woods of loth the Indies, I omitted tranflating two or three words in this paffage, not knowing what to make of them. The words are in fagorum fifvis ; but I find upon looking into' the l'aft edition of the Flora Suecica ofLmnseiis, that the beech is par¬ ticularly deftru&ive of vegetation, which i had never obferved of that tree, but frequently of the fir-kind. The paffage fhould Hand thus : In beech groves, and in the wood's of both the Indies. p; 193. r; §. dye in heaps. This aflair is of fo much confeauence to the farmer, that i think it right to tranlcribe a paffage out of Linn^us upon this fubject. When I arrived* fays he, at Torhea, the in* * habitants complained of a terrible difeafe, that raged among the horned cattle, which upon be¬ ing let into the paftures in the fpring dyed by hundreds.