UZ MEMOIR OF LINN.EUS. 



which do not grow spontaneously in Sweden, he 

 has expressed in the strongest terms. He speaks 

 particularly of their hedge-rows of hawthorn in 

 flower, of which he could not see enough to satisfy 

 his admiration. It will be more interesting, how- 

 ever, to let him relate his own account of his adven- 

 tures in England, especially at Oxford, as given in 

 a short extract from his journal. 



" After having passed about a year in Holland, 

 I felt a strong inclination to visit England. I 

 spoke of it to Clifford, who at once gave his con- 

 sent. Thinking it possible to make the voyage in 

 one day, and to return in the same time, I pro- 

 mised him that I should not remain absent more 

 than a week ; but I afterwards found that it re- 

 quired the whole of that time to make the passage 

 between Rotterdam and London. Immediately on 

 my arrival, I went to pay my respects to Philip 

 Miller, who had been one principal cause of my 

 visit; he showed me the garden at Chelsea, and 

 named to me several plants according to the nomen- 

 clature then in use. For instance, the Symphytum 

 consolida major , jlore luteo. I said nothing; but 

 next day he remarked to me, ' That fellow Clifford 

 is no botanist, he does not know a single plant/ 

 And as he kept repeating the same names, I took 

 the . opportunity of observing, c Don't you call 

 this plant so and so, and this so and so ? We have 

 a much better and a far shorter way of naming 

 them ; they ought to be called so and so/ Upon 



