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74 The Floral King.
return to.Sweden, with an assured position, as a
physician. Carl sought and found the opportunity
of ascertaining from the lips of his beloved that
their passion was really reciprocal, and on speaking
to her father, Linnzus, to his great surprise, was
accepted as his future son-in-law, provided he first
repaired to secure the medical honours in Holland.
With but slender means he, in 1735, started on his
long journey, having obtained a small scholarship
from Upsala: and on parting, his young betrothed
pressed into his hands a small purse worked by her
own hands, and filled with ducats, for of course she
longed to help the object of her love. Carl had
written a few verses to her on leaving, in which he
addressed her as his “ Friend Morea,” for it was
usual in those days that the name of ladies’ sur-
names were ended by the feminine a, thus Morzeus’s
daughter was called Morea, and Linnzus’s future
wife would be called Linnea; and it is a curious
coincidence that thus his lady-love and the flower
he loved the most, and which also adorned his seal,
his portraits, and his future escutcheon, were both
called up after him, Linnza, and that this charming
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