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Show Botanist's Favorite Flower. The grea; t.oiunlst Linnaeus had for his favorite flower thu fragrant rose-tinted rose-tinted little twin flower. Concerning It he Is quoted to havo answered, when asked by a friend If It grow by' tho shores of it Swedish lake, "Nny, she lives not here, hut In thu middle of our largest woods. She clings with her Utile arms to the moss nnd seems to resist very gently If you torcc her from It. She has a complexion llko a milkmaid, and oh! sho Is very, very sweet and agreeable." Tho only painting paint-ing of l.iuneaus which Is In existence exist-ence shows a small sprig of this flower In his buttonhole. |