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188 The Floral King.
specially grown at all the Royal country residences,
so that in all seasons there could be sent such to
Archiater von Linné.
The third of May, 1764, he was suddenly seized
with a severe illness, and soon there seemed no hope
of his recovery, and his wife and children stood
around his bed in mute agony, every moment
expecting he would die. The door was then softly
opened, and in stepped a man, whom no one ever
would have expected to see there. It was his old
secret enemy Nils Rosén, against whom the enraged
Linnzeus, in his young days, had drawn his sword in
challenge, and for whose sake he had been compelled
to leave the University, and the same man who on
his seeking the professorial chair had sought to ex-
clude him from Upsala, where he was jealous of him
as a superior rival. Rosén was also now a man of
great fame, and as a physician even of greater
‘ reputation than Linneus. Rosén had been made
professor and archiater shortly before Linnzus; and
when he was awarded his patent of nobility, he took
the name of Rosén von Rosentein. Since the two
professors had exchanged their Academical chairs,
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