itaillrjeiltia. 
Hubbeckia laciniattt. Natural Order: Compositee — Aster Family. 
ERY properly this plant has been dedicated to Olaus Rudbeck, 
a celebrated botanist of Upsal, Sweden, a man unequaled in 
the ardor and zeal with which he prosecuted his botanical 
esearches. His son, of the same name, followed in his foot- 
m- steps, and was scarcely less distinguished. The Swedes have a 
taste for the science, and Linnams, one of the greatest of naturalists, 
was a countryman of the Rudbecks. His reputation has somewhat 
overshadowed the earlier workers. The Rudbeckia is a tall plant, 
resembling the sunflower, and is found growing freely around swamps 
and ditches throughout the United States and Canada, and blooms 
from August to September. 
TT7HAT stronger breastplate than a heart untainted? 
* * Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just, 
And he but naked, though lock’d up in steel, 
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. 
— Shakespeare. 
'THOUGH with tardy step 
Celestial justice comes, that step is sure, 
Unerring is her bolt, and where it falls, 
Eternal will the ruin be. —Samuel Hays. 
J USTICE, when equal scales she holds, is blind, 
Nor cruelty, nor mercy, change her mind: 
When some escape for that which others die, 
Mercy to those, to these is cruelty. —Denham. 
\ HAPPY lot be thine, and larger light 
1 Await thee there; for thou hast bound thy will 
In cheerful homage to the rule of right, 
And lovest all, and doest good for ill. 
— Bryant. 
'T'HE sun of justice may withdraw his beams 
*- Awhile from earthly ken, and sit concealed 
In dark recess, pavilioned round with clouds; 
Yet let not guilt presumptuous rear her crest, 
Nor virtue droop despondent; soon these clouds, 
Seeming eclipse, will brighten into day, 
And in majestic splendor he will rise, 
With healing and with terror on his wings. 
— Bailey. 
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