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34 The Floral King.
numerous disciples, when the throng of some
hundreds of young botanists, under Linnzus’s
leadership, made for the fields and woods, intent
upon botanical excursions. He divided his many
followers into various groups to disperse in
different directions in quest of rare and interesting
plants, and when anything of peculiar note was
found a bugle sounded which called all the
students together to listen to a short and com-
prehensive exposition by their beloved young
teacher. How this study in sylvan glades and
meadows suited his ardent followers! They
learned, as it were, to draw knowledge direct
from Nature’s own breast, and they became
habituated to look on surrounding objects where-
ever they went, with other eyes than heretofore,
and to perceive the order and harmony, the
beauty and wondrous wisdom of everything created.
When the young men returned to Upsala
from such botanical excursions, they marched in
goodly order, joyously singing exultant patriotic
songs, and decked with sylvan trophies, returning
captors from a peaceful incursion in Flora’s realm;
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