that he afterwards declared, that, hav¬ 
ing once sustained the toils of travel¬ 
ling, he buried in oblivion all the dan¬ 
gers and difficulties he had encountered, 
and considered the invaluable fruits he 
had reaped from his excursion a full 
compensation for every toil. 
At Upsal he had chosen the motto, 
Tantus amor Florum , (thus great is the 
love of flowers,) and never did any body 
select for himself a more appropriate one. * 
“ Surely,” says a Sweedish writer, 
“he must be a faithful lover of Flora, 
who suffers so much in her service, 
and is contented with a favourable smile 
of his beloved one; as Linnams was 
with a plant growing on the brink of 
some steep waterfall, to which he 
climbed at the peril of his life ; or with 
some unknown moss, concealed in pro¬ 
found caverns or clefts of the rock.” 
Having completed his tour, which he 
extended to the alpine hills separating 
