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;.v liuilbcckia lai'miala. Natural Order: Co7nposiUv— Aster Family. 



ER\ properly this plant has been dedicated to Olaus Rudbeck, 



"-, a celebrated botanist of Upsal, Sweden, a man unequaled in 



tiie ardor and zeal with which he prosecuted his botanical 



Q\ ' }/ ' 1 esLiii ches. His son, of' the same name, followed in his foot- 



^j ' steps, and was scarcely less distinguished. The Swedes have a 



taste for the science, and Linngeus, one of the greatest of naturalists, 



w.is a countryman of the Rudbecks. His reputation has somewhat 



o\ei shadowed the earlier workers. The Rudbeckia is a tall plant, 



^ resembling the sunflower, and is found growing freely around swamps 



s .md ditches throughout the United States and Canada, and blooms 



fiom August to September. 



"lirilAT stronger breastplate than a heart untainted? 



Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just, 

 And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, 

 Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. 



-Shakespeare. 



'pHOUGH with tardy step 



Celestial justice comes, tliat step 



Unerring is her bolt. 

 Eternal will the ruin 



sure, 

 where it tails, 



— Samuel Flay^ 



TUSTICE, wh 

 J N'or crueltv. 



equal scales she holds, is blind, 

 3r mercy, change her mind: 

 When some escape for that which others die, 

 Mercy to those, to these is cruelty. —Denham. 



A HAPPY lot be thine, and larger light 

 -'*■ Await thee there; lor thou hast bound 

 In cheerful homage to the rule of right. 

 And lovest all, and doest good for ill. 



'yHE 

 i Aw 



In dark 

 Yet let 



!un of justice m.ay withdraw his beams 

 lile from earthly ken, and sit concealed 

 recess, pavilioned round with clouds: 



Nor virtue droop despondent; soo 

 Seeming eclipse, will brighten int 

 And in majestic splendor he will 

 With healing and with terror on 



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