LINNiE'A BOREALIS. 
NORTHERN LINNEA. 
Class. 
DIDYNA MIA. 
Order 
ANOIOSPER »1A. 
Natural Order. 
CAPR1FOLIACE.E. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration 
Inhabits dry 
Scotland. 
3 inches. 
May, Aug. 
Perennial. 
stony places. 
No. 824. 
There is not, perhaps, a generic name in the 
entire of botanical nomenclature, which can excite 
a sentiment of admiration and respect amongst 
naturalists equal to that now before us. Lin- 
neus, although his systems of classification, as 
respects both the vegetable and animal Kingdoms, 
may now be, in a considerable degree, superceded, 
stepped farther in advance of his contemporaries 
than has any naturalist amongst his successors. 
The humble plant in question, 'it appears by 
Linneus’s journal of his Tour to Lapland, was 
chosen by himself to commemorate his own name, 
when he gathered it at Lyksele, May 29, 1732. 
Former botanists had called it Campanula serpyl- 
lifolia ; but Linneus, 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 breast, till his discoveries and 
publications had entitled him to botanical com- 
memoration; and his friend Gronovius, in due 
time, undertook to make this genus known to the 
world. It was published by Linneus himself, in 
