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The Floral King. 233
justice to his son, which unconsciously instead
turned upon his country.
That he took great pride in his son may be
inferred from his annotations, in which, after
speaking about the many acts of favour shewn him
by the brilliant reigning Queen Lovisa Ulrica, he
says, “But the greatest joy for Linnzus was that
Her Majesty, the incomparable Queen, asked after
Linnzeus’s only son, and what capacity and zeal he
had for Natural History, and when she learnt that,
she promised, that when he had grown up, she
would allow him a free journey, at her expense, all
over Europe, which gracious promise gladdened
Linneus at heart.”
A younger son, Johan, died in infancy, and a
grown-up daughter died also before him, but three
of his daughters survived their famous father. The
eldest of these children had inherited much of her
father’s love of nature. She made the discovery in the
garden at Hammarby, that a faint electric light some-
times flashes from certain plants late of an evening, .
a curious fact which might with great appositeness
be studied in this our age of electricity. Poets have
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