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234 The Floral King.
in all ages endowed flowers with souls, what if elec-
tricity—which by some scientist is called the soul of
the universe—also permeates every little herb, as
most things else? What more likely? This slight
hint, left us as a legacy from the last century, might
be worthy the investigative spirit of our own time.
The youngest daughter seems to have been the
apple of her father’s eye, perhaps, because when she
was born there was scarcely any sign of life in her,
but her anxious father hastened to blow his breath
into her lungs, and by that means he succeeded in
calling her to life. These two daughters married,
but the second daughter, Lovisa, continued to reside
with her widowed mother at Hammarby, and both
ladies reached a great age, the daughter did not
die till 1839, at ninety years of age, the last sur-
vivor of the famous name of Linnzeus or Linné.
Carl von Linné junior, who on succeeding to the
professorship seemed to be expected to fill the place
of him, whose loss was irreparable, felt more
dejected than glad of his responsible position.
He truly loved the Science to which he, like his
great father, devoted himself, but the electric spark
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