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two young men lodged far apart. Artedi naturally 

 preferred the situation by the river-side, below the 

 castle hill and the present hospital, where the Strom- 

 parterre is now, where the band plays of an evening ; 

 while Linnseus chose to be nearer the botanical garden 

 and the museums. Sometimes they met farther down the 

 river by the flowery ' King's Meadow/ where the water- 

 by ssus grows in ditches by the wayside, particularly 

 in places sheltered from the wind. ' It resembles the 

 cream of milk,' Linnaeus says, ' and is called by the 

 peasants the water-flower.' Here both were best suited 

 Sometimes they would be seated on the moss-tufted 

 castle slopes, where grows the rare moss, the lichen 

 nivaliSj 1 looking away over the distance, far-reaching as 

 their fancies, talking of the future ; where often also 

 the two elderly professors, Rudbeck and Roberg, might 

 be seen, as the professors may frequently be seen at 

 this day, pacing the grassy terrace in front of the 

 castle, not exactly arm-in-arm, but the taller with his 

 arm around the other's neck, the shorter holding the 

 other round the waist a sight queer to English eyes, 

 but which passes perfectly unnoticed here in Upsala : 

 these would be talking of the past. And what a difference 

 in the ideas and the talk of the two pairs ! Contrast the 

 seniors' converse, tough and sententious, with the burning 

 young ideas or the limp new-born ones coming forth 

 copiously and with every form of expansion. Yet there 

 was occult talk between the juniors also, Artedi groping 

 1 Linnaeus. 



