LINNiE'A BOREA'LIS.
NORTHERN LINNEA.
Class.
DIDYNA MIA.
Order
ANGIOSPERMA.
Natural Order.
CAPRIFOLIACE*.
No. 824.
There is not, perhaps, a generic name in theentire of botanical nomenclature, which can excitea sentiment of admiration and respect amongstnaturalists equal to that now before us. Lin-neus, although his systems of classification, asrespects both the vegetable and animal Kingdoms,may now be, in a considerable degree, superceded,stepped farther in advance of his contemporariesthan has any naturalist amongst his successors.
The humble plant in question,' it appears byLinneus’s journal of his Tour to Lapland , waschosen 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 ofvegetables on the only certain principles, — thestructure of their parts of fructification, soon foundthis to constitute a new genus. He reserved theidea in his own breast, till his discoveries andpublications had entitled him to botanical com-memoration ; and his friend Gronovius, in duetime, undertook to make this genus known to theworld. It was published by Linneus himself, in