LO NAMING TILE FLOWERS.

several of his patrons and pupils.* Thus the Celsra
was so called after Celsui, one of his carlicst benefac-
tors; and the Kalmia, now so well known in our
gardens, commemorated his friendship for Professor
Kalm, his pupil and fellow-labourer. In his “ Cri-
tica Botanica” he observes, concerning this habit of
the appropriation of celebrated names to the genera
of plants, that ‘a proper connection should be
observed between the habits and appearance of
the plant and the name from which it has its
and as an emblem of himself he

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derivations ;’
chose the Linnea borealis, which he described as
“a little northern plant, flowering early, depressed,
abject, and long overlooked.” It was gathered by
him at Lycksele, May 29, 1732. It is common in

* It may not be generally known that the botanical name for
the genus of plants which includes the Peruvian bark is Cinchona,
so called by Linneus in grateful remembrance of the lady to
whom we are indebted for the discovery of this precious febrifuge.
The Countess del Cinchon, the wife of a Spanish viceroy, being
attacked by fever during her residence in Peru, determined to try
the skill of the native herbalists, who cured her by the use of this
medicine, which, on her return to Spain in 1632, she hastened to
introduce to the notice of the Spanish physicians. Among others,
she mentioned it to Cardinal Lugo, who carried it to Rome in
1649. | Its efficacy was soon universally known throughout Eu-
rope; and the Jesuits, hastening to appropriate to themselves the
credit of the discovery, procured the transmission of large quan-
tities of the drug, which soon obtained the name of “The Jesuits’
Powder.” Sebastian Badus, physician to the Cardinal Lugo, has
related all these facts in an excellent treatise, which he published
at Geneva in 1661.