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The Floral King. 167
1756, he writes: “ Rolander on his homeward
journey from Surinam sent a Cactus with Concio-
nelles, ina pot.” While Linnzeus presided, the gard-
ener took up the plant and cleaned away all dirt,
consequently all the grubs, and transplanted it to
another pot, so that although the worms had fortu-
nately arrived safely, they perished in the garden
before Linnzus saw them, and so vanished all hopes
he had of getting them, which he thought could be
cultivated with profit in the garden. This moved
him so that he got migraine, one of the most
dreadful paroxysms he had ever felt.
However two of the little worms were saved alive,
to some consolation for him.
‘* However, in the meantime, one is compelled to
receive abuse from stupid people, who themselves
dont know curba, much less its species, that’s the
reward here in Sweden, where after the manner of
the Germans, we labour to refute that which we do
not ourselves understand, and hate what is in any
way remarkable, because some one else has first
observed it.”
Of Linnzus’ twelve disciples, who as apostles of
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