Tribulus térreftris Caltrop with chick leaf andprickly fru it
* Trifolium melilotus officinalis Melilot trefoil
Honeyfuckle trefoil
Spiked arrowgrafs
Marfh arrowgrafs
Coltsfoot butter bur
* Trifolium pratenfe
*Triglochin maritimum
*Triglochin paluitre
*Tuffiloao farfara
*Ulmus campeflris
* Valeriana calcitrapa
*Veronica anagallis aquatica
* Veronica beccabunga
* Veronica hederifolia
* Verbafcum Thapfus
*Verbena olficinalis
*Viburnum lantana
* Vinca major
* Viola odorata
Common elm
Valerian with leaves^ like thofe o f the
Jlar thi/lle
Pimpernel fpeedwell
Brooklime fpeedwell
Ivy leaved fpeedwell
Great mullein
Common vervain
Pliant meal tree
Greater periwinkle
Sweet violet
Befides the above fpontaneous plants, the fo llow in g are cu ltivated in gardens j
Amygdalus perfica '
Peach tree
Crataegus oxyacantha
White hawthorn
Prunus domeftica
• Plumb prune
Prunus cerafus
Black cherry prune
Pyrus communis
Pear apple
Pyrus cydonia
Quince
Vitis vinifera
Vine
fct* Since the environs o f Trillo had induced Dr. Ortega to give a catalogue o f plants in
that neighbourhood, itinfenfibly engages me to add a.few words refpe&ing the ftudy of botany
in that kingdom, which hitherto had made fo little figure as to draw down very pointed
refle&ions from Linnaeus, who fays, u Hifpajiicje floras nulla; nobis innotuerunt adeoque
plant#
Carthamus tinclorius Baflard fajfron
Linum ufitatiffimum Common Flax
plant® lit® rariffmi® m feels Hifpanice fertilliiKmis minus detea® funt. Dolendum eit quod
in Iocis, Europ® cultioribus tanta exiftat noftro tempote barbaries botanices! pauciflimas
jfias plantas, qu® nobis in Hifpania Sc Portugalia conftant, debemus curioiis clafs hi Tour-
nefortio et paucis aliis.” Linn, fiiblioth. botanica. part,™, florid® $ viii. Hifp. pag 96
which tended greatly to raife the emulation of the Spaniards; and while that celebrated
botanift was taking meafures to obtain a permiffion for one o f his pupils to travel through
Spam, he recerved a meflkge from the Spanilh ambaflhdor at the court of Stockholm, which
greatly furprifcd him, as it intimated the defire o f his Catholic majefly to have a botanift recommended
by Linn®us. This appears to have been owing to fome Englifli gentlemen then
at Madrid,, and .among. them Robert More, Efq; F. R. S. who dining with die prime minifler
Don Jofeph de Caravajal, had been alked their opinion of ’Spain by that minifler, who perceiving
that the remark of Linhsus was not without foundatidri, and being inform'ed that a
Spamfh flora -would turn out as new as it was rich, determined that his country fliould foon
be free from fuch a reproach; this was afterwards communicated to Linn®us by Mr. More
in his tour through Sweden, and accounted for the application above-mentioned. Peter
lafliflgv the favorite fchoiar of-Linnsus, was accordingly fixed upon for this expedition, and
was received in Spain in the moft gracious manner. His furprife: was great to' find many
loversofbotany at Madrid, particularly Don JofephOrtega, fecretary to the phyfical academy,
.DonJuanMmuart, chief apothecary to the armies, Don Jofeph Ouer, firft furgeon to the
king, who had a fplendid bptanical garden, and a moil elegant colleffion o f plants, Don
Chnftoval Velez, apothecary o f the college o f phyfieia'ns, who was poffeffed of a choice collec-
daon of botanical books,, with a grand hortus ficcus, and-had drawn up a flora Madrifenfis.
:L®fling was greatly careffed by thefe gentlemen, and in return paid a handfome compliment
to each, by calling four new plants after their names. Linn®us has taken thefe names into all
-the fubfequent editions o f his genera and fpecies pldnlarum, and into jthe laft edition o f his
¡jjlema nature, ftefling «aid about two years at Madrid, making occafional excurfions, dur-
mg. which time he collefted above 1300 diflihft fpecies ofSpaniih plants. By orders o f the
court he embarked' at Cadiz, in the year 1734, for South America, where he unfortunately
.died, 22d Feb. r75.6,.and Linn®us publiflted his letters. See Iter Hifpanicum, Holmi®,
1758J and a further account o f Peter L®fling’s life and botanical writings, in the 2d vol. of.
Boffu's travels in Louifiana, tranflated b y j . R. Forfler, F> A.' S. London-,’ 1771..
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