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Symphoricarpus (Dill.) Ludwig. Snowberry. 



racemosus Michx. 



Farnumsville, escaped. Miss K. I. Fish. 

 Linnsea (Gronov.) L. Twin-flower. 



borealis L., var. Americana (Forbes) Render. 



In cool, mossy woods, in the northern part of the county. 



"Linnaea," says Sir James Edward Smith, "is so called in honor 

 of the great Swedish naturalist, Linnaeus; and appears, by the journal 

 of his tour in Lapland, to have been chosen by himself to commemo- 

 rate his own name, when he gathered it at Lyksele, May 29, 1732. 

 Former botanists had called this elegant and singular little plant 

 Campanula serpyttifolia; but Linnaeus, prosecuting the study of 

 vegetables on the only certain principles, the structure of their parts 

 of fructification, soon found this to constitute a new genus. He 

 reserved the idea in his own mind till his discoveries and publications 

 had entitled him to botanical commemoration; and his friend 

 Gronovius, in due time, undertook to make this genus known to the 

 world. It was published by Linnaeus himself, in the Genera Plan- 

 tar urn, in 1737, and the same year In the Flora Lapponica,with a plate; 

 being, moreover, mentioned in the Critica Botanica, as 'a humble, 

 despised, and neglected Lapland plant flowering at an early age,' 

 like the person whose name it bears." GEORGE B. EMERSON'S 

 Trees and Shrubs of Massachusetts. 



" In unploughed Maine he sought the lumberer's gang, 

 Where from a hundred lakes young rivers sprang; 



He saw beneath dim aisles in odorous beds 

 The slight Linnaea hang its twin-born heads, 

 And blessed the monument of the man of flowers, 

 Which breathes his sweet fame through the northern bowers." 

 R. W. EMERSON'S Woodnotes, I, 3. 



Triosteum L. Feverwort. 



aurantiacum. Bicknell. In rich woods, Boylston. 



