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LINNAEUS 
fore another has the credit.” It may be observed that 
when the manuscript and the printed treatise are com¬ 
pared, differences in the language are found, for it 
was first written in Swedish, but its later form was 
in Latin throughout. The question is valid, how far 
the said plant is a special genus or if it should be 
referred to the old genus P edicularis . One suspects 
Professor Rudbeck’s paternal hand, which here and 
there altered the young student’s “ day’s labour.” 
The whole of this little episode speaks eloquently of 
the intimate relation which Linnaeus enjoyed in the 
Rudbeckian home. 
That Linnaeus throve there is apparent. A 
tempting invitation being made to him in October, 
1731, to undertake tuition the following Easter at 
Archiater Nordenheim’s in Stockholm, he accepted the 
proposal, but afterwards revoked it. He found him¬ 
self specially drawn to his kindly host, and tried to 
show his gratitude to his benefactor. Not long after 
he had removed to the Rudbeckian household, which 
took place on St. Olof’s Day, 29th July, 1730, he con¬ 
tributed to the celebration of the event by giving to 
O. Rudbeck, as a gift, one of the previously mentioned 
editions of “ Hortus Uplandicus ” adorned by some 
of his own verses. The next year, he presented an 
“ Odmjukt offer ” [an humble offering] consisting 
of a description of the new genus Rudbeckia. He 
had already in his “ Spolia botanica ” given this name 
to another genus, namely that which now bears the 
name Linncea; this was actually written so at first, 
then partially erased, and Rudbeckia substituted, but 
the original name is plainly to be discerned beneath 
it; further, in “ Methodus Avium” there is a bird 
genus named Rudbeckiana , which led to the passage 
“ Though all the world be silent, the plant Rudbeckia 
and the birds Rudbeckiance sing thy noble name.” 
The success which had hitherto attended him 
became clouded in some measure by the return of Nils 
Rosen from his foreign travels. This man, whom 
