STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 
Circle; in dreary Kamschatka and in snowy Lapland. the 
young girls wreathe their hair with its flexible garlands. 
In inhospitable Labrador it covers the rocks and mossy 
roots of pines and birches in lonely shaded glens. It is 
found in the Scottish Highlands and through all parts of 
the Northern and Eastern States of America. In all the 
provinces of our own Canada it may be found in secluded 
spots. On the rocky islands of the St. Lawrence and on 
our inland lakes it is particularly abundant; its graceful 
trailing branches cover the rude rocks and fling a robe of 
luxuriant vegetation over decaying fallen timber, concealing 
that which is unseemly with grace and beauty. 
‘¢ Sweet flower, that in the lonely wood 
And tangled forest clothest the rude twisted roots 
Of lofty pine and feathery hemlock 
With thy flower-decked garland ever green ; 
Thy modest, drooping rosy bells of fairy lightness 
Wave gently to the passing breeze, 
Diffusing fragrance.” 
This pretty, graceful little plant was named in honor of 
the great father of botany, the good Linneus, who chose it 
more especially as his own flower when he plucked it first 
in Bothnia, and by his wish it was adopted for the crest of 
his coat-of-arms. 
The little flower has been immortalized by the great 
botanist. It is said that one of his pupils, aware of his 
great master’s love for the plant, when visiting China, 
caused a service of fine porcelain to be made and decorated 
with wreaths of the Linnea, as a present to Linnzus and 
as a mark of his grateful remembrance. 
At the death of the great naturalist, Cardinal de Noailles 
erected a cenotaph in his garden to his memory, and planted 
this little northern flower at its base for the sake of him 
whose name it bears.* 
here Miss Brightwell’s Life of Linneeus. 
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