384 FLORA OF OXFORDSHIRE. 
ended in an offer to lend me money, and to take thirty books (which he 
did to hinder my taking subscriptions). I finished the book without his 
money, and he instead of thirty, took only ten books, for which I had but 
30 guineas—I gave him besides, one more gratis, and some time after, 
another, which in some manner he begged of me....If the time which 
hath been spent in composing this work, had been employ’d in the Pinax 
I durst say the Pinax was finished.’ Rich. Corres. p. 364. In the Hortus 
Dillenius records Tussilago hybrida from Oxfordshire ‘prope Banbury 
primum inventa dicitur in Anglia,’ p. 310. 
In 1735 he was made Doctor of Physic. ‘Linnzus visited Oxford in 
1736 in order to see the Physic Garden, and was received in a friendly 
manner by Dr. Shaw who declared himself a disciple, having read Lin- 
neus’ System with great pleasure. The learned Dillenius was at first 
haughty, conceiving Linnzus’ Genera to be written against him, but he 
afterwards detained him a month without leaving Linneus an hour to 
himself the whole day long; and at last took leave of him with tears in 
his eyes, after having given him the choice of living with him till his 
death, as the salary of the Professorship was sufficient for them both!” 
Another version of the meeting of the two Botanists relates that Lin- 
neus, meeting the Oxford Professor with Dr. Shaw, apologised for his 
inability to talk in English, which threw Dillenius off his guard, who 
remarked carelessly to Dr. Shaw ‘this is the young man who would 
confound the whole of Botany; but Linnzus gathered the meaning of 
the speech by tracing the verb ‘confound’ to its Latin root, and soon 
took an opportunity of retaliating by slightly alluding to it, while he was 
demonstrating in the garden some of the new genera to which Dillenius 
had particularly objected. He quickly constrained the Professor to form 
a high opinion of his ability, although he could not succeed in making him 
a proselyte. In a letter to Dr. Richardson in August of that year Dille- 
nius writes: ‘A new botanist is arose in the north, a founder of a new 
method wu staminibus et pistillis whose name is Linneus.... He is a 
Swede and hath travelled over Lapponia; hath a thorough insight into 
botany; but am afraid his method won’t hold. He came hither and 
stayed here about eight days.’ Their meeting led to a friendship and 
correspondence which terminated only with death. Linnzus thus ex- 
pressed himself ‘Zn Anglia nullus est qui genera curat vel intelligat 
preter quam Dillenius’ Sir James Smith says that had Dillenius’ 
generosity been equalled by Sir Hans Sloane it is probable that Linnzus 
would have remained in England. 
Dr. Williams, Professor of Botany at Oxford, gave Professor Schultes 
another version of the story. He says Linneus cuessed that Dillenius 
had used the word ‘confusion, but that shortly afterwards Sherard 
@ Shaw) and Dillenius stopped by a wall overgrown with Linaria Cym- 
balaria, a plant upon which they were desirous of having Linneus’ 
1 Linneeus’ diary, 517. 
