Volume 2

A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals ... / By Sir Charles Linné: translated from Gmelin, Fabricius, Willdenow, &c. Together with various modern arrangements and corrections. With a life of Linné ... and a dictionary ... of the terms ... of natural history, by William Turton.

  • Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778.
Date:
1806
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Credit: A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals ... / By Sir Charles Linné: translated from Gmelin, Fabricius, Willdenow, &c. Together with various modern arrangements and corrections. With a life of Linné ... and a dictionary ... of the terms ... of natural history, by William Turton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Oblongus. Deprefled, black, polilhed: (hells ftriate: body oblong. Inhabits Sweden under the bark of the roots of the afh tree. Abbrevia- Black ; (hells with crenate ftriae, the inner ones abbreviated. tus* Inhabits America : hze of H. pigmaeus. Sinuatus, Black ; (hells with a finuate rufous fpot in the middle. Inhabits Germany, Oliv.Inf. i, 8. tab. i, Jig. 5. Shells ftriate on the inner edge, fmooth at the future. Cruciatns. Black ; (hells teftaceous with a common black crofs. Inhabits Barb ary; iize of H. linuatus. Shells fmooth, polifhed, the future and fpot crofting it in the middle black, hind margin black. -macula- Black . fhells llriate with a red fpot behind. Inhabits Europe. Qliv. Inf. 1, 8. tab. 2. fig. 12. \ * 4,-macula- Black ; (hells with 2 red fpots on each. tui' Inhabits Europe. Oliv. Inf. 1,8. t. 3, f. 15. mJEneus, Brady ; fhells ftriate at the bafe, pundlured at the tip. Inhabits Europe. Geoff. Inf. 1, 8. tab. 2, fig, 10. Detritus. Black, fhining ; fhells pitchy, dufky at the tip. Inhabits New Holland. Oliv. Inf. 1,8. t. 2. fi. 16. Shells with 4oblique ftriae at the bafe, the tip dufky and punfturecL Picipes* Oblong, black : (hells very (hort: antenna and legs pitchy. Inhabits Germany. Qliv. Inf. 1,8. t. 2. fig. 14. Shells abbreviated and not ftriate. Gcefius. Black ; thorax with a tranfverfe groove: antennae fer¬ ruginous. Inhabits Germany. Herbfi Arch. t. 36. f. 3. Apterus. Tawny; wings o. Inhabits Italy. Scopol. Ent. n. 3, g. GYRINUS. Antennas cylindrical: jaws horny, i-toothed, iharp-pointed: eyes 4, 2 above and 2 beneath: thorax and Jhells margined, the latter fhorter than the body ; legs formed for fwimming. Water-flea. Theie