RUDBECK'IA FUL'GIDA. 
FULGID RUDBECKI A. 
Class. Order. 
SYNGENESIA. POLYGAMIA FRUSTRANEA. 
Natural Order. 
CORYMBIFERjE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. America. 
2 feet. 
July, Aug. 
Perennial. 
in 1760. 
No. 101. 
Linneus named this genus of plants after Olof 
Rudbeck, father and son, of Upsal; both of them 
men of brilliant talent ; who were, successively, Pro- 
fessors of Botany there, previous to Linneus himself. 
Rudbeck, the elder, commenced a work, The Campi 
Elysii, which was to consist of twelve folio volumes, 
and contain wood-cuts of all the plants in the world, 
as far as they were discovered. He is said to have 
prepared more than ten thousand figures towards 
the accomplishment of this stupendous design, and 
two volumes were printed, which may be seen in 
the Sherardian Library of Oxford. Of the first 
volume, three copies only, were saved from the des- 
tructive fire at Upsal, in 1702; which, it is greatly 
to be regretted, destroyed also the materials for the 
further progress of the work. 
The Rudbeckia fulgida is not of delicate foliage, 
but well deserves a place in the herbaceous com- 
partment, as it produces a good show of flowers, and 
requires no peculiar attention. 
It will grow in any common garden soil ; and the 
roots may be taken up, and separated, either in the 
spring or the autumn. 
26 Hort. Kew. 2, v. 5, 131. 
