Possibly no plant could more worthily commemorate the great Botanist than this modest little flower. Up to the time of Linnaeus it was supposed to be a campanula, but on his tour through Sweden, when still a young man, he saw the distinction, and his friend Grono-vius, the Dutch botanist, named the plant, in his honor, Linnaea. In the writer's library is a picture of the young botanist, clothed in his traveling clothes, and with a branch of the Linnaea ready to put into his botanical box. As the fame of Linnaeus is so universal, so seems the growth of this little plant. It not only is common in Northern Europe, but over the northern part of the American continent. It was among the first to catch the eye of the writer of this on his first entrance, recently, into the Douglas spruce woods of Washington Territory; and all through British Columbia, and high northward in Alaska, it was rare to make an excursion without walking over Linnaea borealis. It is not by any means a showy plant; but as emblematical of the universality of the modest genius of Linnaeus, no better could have been taken.