UFE OF LINNAEUS. 37 
ining their internal structure, on which 
he was hereafter to found his botanical 
system. 
Many were the excursions he made 
to enrich his herbal, and to add to his 
collection from the animal kingdom. 
In one of these expeditions he was stung 
by a venomous worm, not uncommon in 
Sweden, to w 7 hich he afterwards gave 
the name of Furia Inf emails. As he 
was far in the country when the accident 
happened, the poison affected his whole 
frame before it was possible to obtain 
medical aid. To such extremity was 
he reduced by its effects, that his life 
was despaired of; but the skill of Stob- 
baeus saved him. This circumstance, 
instead 'oFdSfiJping his courage, seem¬ 
ed rather to serve as a stimulous to 
prosecute his researches with increas¬ 
ed ardour. But it was to the vegeta¬ 
ble world he was the most strongly at- 
