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The Floral King. 203
could not bear to think that the University of Upsala
should not still boast the lustrous name of Linnzus,
senior, as if in the exercise of his great calling.
Linneus lacked nothing in reciprocal compliments
to the King, for by way of gratitude for many honours
bestowed, he nominated the grandest and most
beautiful tree he could find in the entire world after
this his well-beloved King, Gustavia Augusta.
Towards the end of 1776, Linnzus’ health was
rapidly failing, and his life’s lamp flickered as if
ready to go out. That spring term he had still
lectured, but during the latter part of the year, both
his mental faculties and bodily strength rapidly
declined.
“Linné limps, can scarcely walk, speaks incohe-
rently, can barely write,” those are the last words
he, with tremulous hands, has written in his diary.
Soon he could no more move from the place where
he was seated or lay, could not dress himself, nor
even feed himself, but had to be tended like a child.
His consciousness was obscured, he gradually forgot
everything, even his own name.
But sometimes moments occurred when it seemed
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