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MEMOIR OF LINNAEUS. 
“ On the third day, finding that Dillenius did 
not relax in his coldness towards ine, and that my 
money was near an end, I begged him, as I was 
ignorant of the English language, to send his ser- 
vant to take a passage for me next day in one 
of the public vehicles for London. He did so ; 
and then I thought I might ask him another 
favour, viz. to explain to me the remark which he 
had made to Slierard at our first interview. This 
he refused ; and upon my insisting, he requested 
me to walk into the library, where he showed me a 
copy of my Genera Plantarum, of which Grono- 
vius had sent him about the \ialf, without my 
knowledge ; almost every page of which was marked 
with a nota lene. ‘ What am I to understand by 
this (said I) V — ‘ Every one of these marks in 
your volume (replied he), indicates a false genus.’ 
I maintained the contrary ; ‘ but if I have been 
unwittingly mistaken (added I), allow me at least 
to prove my error ; and, if wrong, I shall have no 
hesitation in altering these genera .' — ‘ Come, then 
(said he), let us analyse the first plants we meet 
with in the garden and pulling up a specimen of 
the llitum, which he, as well as other botanists, 
had described as having three stamina, lie handed 
it to me. I opened the flower, and proved to him 
that it had but one. ‘ Ha ! (said he), that no 
doubt is an anomaly.' I opened several others, all 
of which were alike. We then tried several other 
genera, and found them all to correspond with my 
