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several of his patrons and pupils.* Thus the Celsia 

 was so called after Celsui, one of his earliest benefac- 

 tors ; and the Kalmia, now so well known in our 

 gardens, commemorated his friendship for Professor 

 Kalm, his pupil and fellow-labourer. In his " Cri- 

 tica Botanica" he observes, concerning this habit of 

 the appropriation of celebrated names to the genera 

 of plants, that " a proper connection should be 

 observed between the habits and appearance of 

 the plant and the name from which it has its 

 derivations;" and as an emblem of himself he 

 chose the Linncea borealis, which he described as 

 " a little northern plant, flowering early, depressed, 

 abject, and long overlooked." It was gathered by 

 him at Lycksele, May 29, 1732. It is common in 



* It may not be generally known that tlie botanical name for 

 the genus of plants which includes the Peruvian bark is Cinchona, 

 so called by Linnaeus in grateful remembrance of the lady to 

 whom we are indebted for the discovery of this precious febrifuge. 

 The Countess del Cinchon, the wife of a Spanish viceroy, being 

 attacked by fever during her residence in Peru, determined to try 

 the skill of the native herbalists, who cured her by the use of this 

 medicine, which, on her return to Spain in 1632, she hastened to 

 introduce to the notice of the Spanish physicians. Among others, 

 she mentioned it to Cardinal Lugo, who carried it to Rome in 

 1649. Its efficacy was soon universally known throughout Eu- 

 rope ; and the Jesuits, hastening to appropriate to themselves the 

 credit of the discovery, procured the transmission of large quan- 

 tities of the drug, which soon obtained the name of " The Jesuits' 

 Powder." Sebastian Badus, physician to the Cardinal Lugo, has 

 related all these facts in an excellent treatise, which he published 

 at Geneva in 1661. 



