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32 The Floral King.
opens its chalice; but after a few days when it has
bloomed and become pregnant she again is gradually
drawn down in the water, by means of the stem
again contracting itself spirally. This is the female.
Vallisnerioides (Mich.) grows in the same places also
under the water, but with a stem scarcely the
length of a finger, and can thus not reach the
surface of the water. This plant bears a great
number of flowers which, when ready to bloom,
liberate themselves from the stem, and float up
like little blossoms. At first they are closed, but
as soon as they have come up on the surface they
develop and float about, and their pollen is now
and again whiffed to the maidens floating about.
These are the husbands of the former. Michelius
noted this, and fully described it, but yet did not
come to the conclusion that also amongst the
flowers existed men and women.”
After a short time, when the aged professor had
procured himself permission to hold office vicariously,
he appointed Linnzeus to lecture in his stead on
botany in the University. This was a very great
honour, all the more as an older docens, Elias
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