, son of the preceding, was born at Upsal in 1660, and under his father’s direction studied
, son of the preceding, was born
at Upsal in 1660, and under his father’s direction studied
medicine, botany, and antiquities. He took his doctor’s
degree at Utrecht, in 1690, publishing on that occasion
an able dissertation, “De fundamental! Plantarum Notiti-3.
rite acquirenda.
” In this he asserts the necessity of arranging and distinguishing the genera of plants by their
fructification alone, and prefers such leading principles as
are derived from the fruit, rather than from the corolla.
He rejects habit, colour, sensible qualities, time of flowering, &c. on which so much stress has been laid by superficial observers; while, on the other hand, he declines being implicitly led by the more abstruse principles of certain
more philosophical botanists. He had previously, at Upsal,
in 1686, defended a thesis “De Propagatione Plantarum, 1 *
which is less original, though highly creditable as a school
exercise. In 1695, he set out from Upsal on a tour to
Lapland, accompanied by two sons of count Gyllenborg,
After his return he prepared a very ample account of his
journey, having made a number of drawings for the pur*
pose. The first part, published in 1701, in Latin and
Swedish, is dedicated to king Charles XII. in a Latin, as
well as Swedish, poem, and ornamented with a magnificent
wood-cut of the Pedicularis Sceptrum-Carolinum. But this
volume, a thin 4to, goes no further than the province of
Upland. The rest of the materials, except a collection of
drawings of plants, which still exist, and perhaps rather
belong to the
” Campi Elysii,“seem to have perished in
the fire of Upsal. Such indeed was the fate of most of the
copies of the work just mentioned, entitled
” Laponia illusr
trata," which is therefore an extremely scarce book.