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36 The Floral King.
increasing, but the lone hours of the night he
spent in his closet in conceiving and sketching
the outlines for his great reform in Botany and
Natural History. He has, himself, in his auto-
graphic notes, unostentatiously related how, during
this period of his life, he wrote no less than
thirteen important works: in these sciences, and
the which all he had already drafted before he
was twenty-three years old; -and of some of these
he even made several copies himself. Everyone
of these works became famous in after years,
and were again and again considerably enlarged,
until, with the subsequent works, great and minor,
by Linnzus, all in all more than seventy, they
formed a complete library in all the branches
of Natural History.
With touching simplicity—for true genius is
ever simple as its kindreds of truth and beauty
and virtue—he wrote at this time, “the days
of my life are short; what must be done, must
be done quickly.”
How thorough and diligent Linnzus was, even
in his practical herborising, may be gathered from
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