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64 The Floral King.
this they would find themselves working for a useful
science, and to themselves equally beneficial. They
would then no doubt vie with each other after
having come to the Laplands, in gathering tests,
make experiments to send in to the Royal Academy
of Science, by that to serve the public and their
Lapland, when now often they do not understand
more than peasants what the Creator of Nature has
so gloriously placed before their eyes.
“These are briefly my simple thoughts, which the
Royal Academy of Science, with the other members,
may vouchsafe to send in to the Royal Directors,
who perhaps from this may find a reason to benefit
Lapland and in that our country.”
During his Lapland tour, Linnzus saw for the
first time the sea wheat-grass, the same which grows
in Iceland and in the Faro Islands of Scotland,
where its spikes are gathered and prepared for bread,
he thought it suited for Lapland, but although it is a
perennial plant, and mostly cultivated on sea-coast
land, he never succeeded in persuading the govern-
ment to interest itself in its behalf by introducing it
in these sterile regions, and Linnzeus maintained
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