CAPRIFOLIACEAE. 305 
LINNAEA. Twinflower. 
(Family Caprifoliaceae). 
Low trailing and _ rooting 
shrubs with finally exfoliating 
red-brown bark: evergreen. Twigs 
almost filiform, terete: pith 
minute. Buds solitary, sessile, 
oblong, appressed, minute and con- 
cealed by the dilated petiole, with 
2 valvate scales. lLeaf-scars op- 
posite, much raised and shriveled, 
the single bundle-trace obscured: 
stipules or stipule-scars lacking. 
Leaves small, obovate-orbicular, 
crenate, their petioles meeting 
transversely. 
Winter- characters of JLinnaea 
borealis are given by Bosemann, 
ol vand Fant; 5: 
Though the American’ twin- 
flower, Linnaea borealis ameri- 
cana, or lL. americana, differs 
characteristically from its Euro- 
pean representative, typical L. borealis, the distinction is not 
readily made out except when flowers are present. 
Sparingly white-hairy. L. borealis. 
Linnaea presents the seeming anomaly of a genus dedi- 
cated to himself by its author. Under international conven- 
tion the nomenclature of flowering plants dates from the 
publications of the great author of the binomial system of 
designating plants. Linnaea was published by Linnaeus in 
his Genera Plantarum in 1737, and embodied in his Species 
Plantarum in 1753. He appears to have been extremely fond 
of the dainty little plant; but his friend Gronovius, and not 
he, named it in his honor. WV 
