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is celebrated in America. The fitness of this 

 mention you shall see. One of the books 

 was Rudbeck's Hortus Upsaliensis (1658); 

 another was Tillandsius's Flora Aboensis (1673) ; 

 the third Bromelius's Chloris Gothica (1694). 

 It was to the grateful memory of these Scan- 

 dinavian botanists, Rudbeckius, Tillandsius 

 and Bromelius, all of them dead before Lin- 

 naeus was born, that he, in the days of his 

 own fame, consecrated those fine American 

 genera, Rudbeckia, Tillandsia and Bromelia. 

 These men, by their books, had been his 

 teachers of botany while he dwelt at Wexio 

 between the eleventh year of his age and the 

 nineteenth. It is true that the works of these 

 men were not of the nature of what would 

 now be called scientific botany; that is, the 

 plants discussed were not arranged according 

 to any notion of their affinities. The order 

 followed was either that of the alphabetic 

 order of their names, as in a common dic- 

 tionary, or else, if they were grouped at all, 

 the grouping was according to their medicinal 

 properties or other economic uses. All these 

 books, so much beloved and revered by 

 the youthful Linnaeus, had been published 

 before Tournefort, who, practically, and at 

 least for the time immediately antecedent to 



