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biographies, where he warmly mentions his protector 
Stobaeus, “ to whom I am indebted so long as I live, 
for the love he bore me, and that he loved me, not as 
a pupil, but as if I were his son.” 
The influence of this especially distinguished 
instruction, with the use of the beloved museum of 
Stobaeus soon showed itself. Before everything was 
Linnaeus’s endeavour to provide himself with an 
arranged herbarium of dried plants secured on white 
paper, such as seemed at that time, and far into 
that century, the proper thing. For this he visited 
not only the little academic garden, but such as 
Dr. Hegardt’s in Lund, whence he procured sundry 
plants for his “ Herbarium vivum,” among them being 
in November, 1727, flowering specimens of Jerusalem 
artichoke, Helianthus tuberosus. Besides this, he 
undertook, whenever the season permitted, flying 
excursions into the neighbourhood, for here one found 
entirely different plants from those occurring in 
Smaland. He and his companions—for he had by 
1728 initiated certain students in botanic matters— 
directed their course to Malmo and Lomma, where 
one also was able to get fossils from the sands by the 
seashore; or to Fogelsang, where nature had its 
theatre; here was a high hill of pyrites, and also a 
glen through which a stream ran. On both sides 
above the brook were thickets where the rarest plants 
were to be found. The floral treasures here gathered 
were investigated by help of Johrenius’s “ Hodegus 
Botanicus,” which Linnaeus had bought as soon as 
he became a student, Tournefort’s method not being 
practicable. 
These excursions, however, came to a sudden end, 
for on a hot day, 26th May, 1728, at Fogelsang his 
whole arm swelled up like a log, and Linnaeus was 
obliged to go to bed. His condition grew worse, 
although Stobaeus employed all his skill trying to 
cure the evil. The latter was soon obliged to journey 
to Ramlosa to drink the waters, and he parted from 
