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The Floral King. 37
a short preface to a small treatise describing
the trees and herbs that grew on a small isle
in the famous lake Malar, a water which is
said to surround as many islands as there are
days in the year. When Linnzus, at midsummer
in 1731, went by sea from Upsala to Stockholm
in a small packet belonging to his patron,
Rudbeck, accompanied by between twenty and
thirty students, they arrived after much rowing
and pulling of the craft along the shores in a
perfect calm at two o’clock in the night, at a
small isle, where all the students and the crew
lay down to sleep. But Linnzeus, who had
heard from the men that on this isle it was
rumoured all kinds of plants and trees that grew
in the kingdom were to be found, repaired
instead up on land, and walked in a straight
line up and down the whole length of the isle
only leaving a couple of feet each time from
the parallel line, ‘‘in the same way as a plough-
man draws his furrows,” so as to miss no piece
of ground in his research; and he had barely
thus completed his minute scrutiny, and just
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