,394 FLORA HISTORICA. 



RUDBECKIA. Rudbeckia, 



Natural Order Compositce Oppositifolice. Corymhl- 

 ferce, Juss. A Genus of the Syngenesia Polygamia 

 Frustranea Class. 



This genera of plants, of which we have nine 

 species, are all indigenous to North America ; but 

 IMiller tells us that he received seeds of one of 

 the species from Siberia, as well as from North 

 America: and this justifies what we have fre- 

 quently noticed in regard to plants, that some 

 of the genera are generally to be found in the 

 same latitude of the Old World, excepting in 

 instances where the altitude of situation differs 

 materially. 



This family of plants was named Rudbeckia, 

 in honour of Olaus Rudbeck, a Swedish physi- 

 cian, who founded the botanical garden of Upsal. 

 His son succeeded him as professor of botany 

 and anatomy, and afterwards joined Berzelius in 

 bounding the Swedish academy. The father died 

 in 1702, and the son in 1740; and as Linnaeus 

 gave his first lectures on botany in 1730, when 



