Linnæa borealis.

Two-flowered Linnæa.

Didynamia Angiospermia.

Flowers in pairs. Stems thread-shaped, from three to six feet long, trailing. Leaves opposite, roundish-eggshaped, with two or three serratures on each side, ending in leaf-stalks. Branches alternate, undivided, upright, an inch long, bearing six or eight leaves. Fruit-stalks terminating the older branches, solitary, a finger's length, upright. Blossom white on the outside, flesh-coloured within. In the night emitting a fragrant odour like the Spirea. Berry dry, three-celled. Seeds solitary, or in pairs.Withering.

LINNEUS had distinguished many of his friends by affixing their names to various plants. The Celsia was so called in honour of Celsius, one of his earliest patrons. The Kalmia, now so well known in our gardens, commemorated his friendship for professor Kalm, his pupil and fellow-labourer. For himself he selected the Linnæa Borealis, which he describes as "a little northern plant, flowering early, depressed, abject, and long overlooked;" and then he traces a resemblance between this plant and his own early lot. Like the little flower, un

Deep in her unfrequented bower,
Sweet Philomela pour'd her strain;
The bird of eve approv'd her flower,
And answered thus the anxious swain:

"Live unseen!

By moonlight shades, in valleys green,
Lovely flower, we'll live unseen.
Of our pleasures deem not lightly,
Laughing day may look more sprightly;
But I love the modest mien,

Still I love the modest mien

Of gentle evening fair, and her star-trained queen.

"Didst thou, shepherd, never find

Pleasure is of pensive kind?
Has thy cottage never known,
That she loves to dwell alone?
Dost thou not, at evening hour,
Feel some soft and secret power,
Gliding o'er thy yielding mind,
Leave sweet serenity behind,
While, all disarm'd, the cares of day
Steal through the falling gloom away?

Love to think thy lot was laid

In this undistinguished shade.

Far from the world's infectious view

Thy little virtues safely blew.

Go, and in day's more dangerous hour
Guard thy emblematic flower."

Linnæa borealis.

Two-flowered Linnæa.

Didynamia Angiospermia.

Flowers in pairs. Stems thread-shaped, from three to six feet long, trailing. Leaves opposite, roundish-eggshaped, with two or three serratures on each side, ending in leaf-stalks. Branches alternate, undivided, upright, an inch long, bearing six or eight leaves. Fruit-stalks terminating the older branches, solitary, a finger's length, upright. Blossom white on the outside, flesh-coloured within. In the night emitting a fragrant odour like the Spirea. Berry dry, three-celled. Seeds solitary, or in pairs. Withering.

LINNEUS had distinguished many of his friends by affixing their names to various plants. The Celsia was so called in honour of Celsius, one of his earliest patrons. The Kalmia, now so well known in our gardens, commemorated his friendship for professor Kalm, his pupil and fellow-labourer. For himself he selected the Linnæa Borealis, which he describes as "a little northern plant, flowering early, depressed, abject, and long overlooked;" and then he traces a resemblance between this plant and his own early lot. Like the little flower, un