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140 The Floral King.
In the beginning of the year 1761, Linnzus wrote
to his friend, P. W. Wargentin, the Secretary of the
Royal Academy of Science :—
‘*DEAR SIR,
‘ “T take the liberty of communicating to
you a phenomenon, which does not belong to my
forum; I hope, however, that you will excuse me,
sir, if I go extra oleas.
“The ancients have spoken about an art, which
now is inter artes depreditas, which they called palin-
gensie. Fvancus has searched through the erudition
of the ancients for all the dicta which exist regarding
it, to prove that such an art was known to them.
Since palingenesiam literarum 1 know no one who has
understoodit. It has been said that Kirkems showed
it in Rome to Queen Christina and her suite. I
read, about twenty years ago, in Actis Nat. Curios,
about someone who had prepared an infusum fugidum
of roses, which had not succeeded, he put the glass
on a shelf where it remained forgotten for some years.
One evening he got up to the shelf, he saw in the
glass that the humours had parted themselves into
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