I must have felt like linnaeus when for the first time he saw a field of gorse in bloom.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
Here are some of the finest larches in the kingdom, the first to be planted in Britain, having that honour done them by the great linnaeus himself, it is said.
"In the Border Country"
W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett
linnaeus asserts that "they feed on the nectar of flowers, and show an equal variety of colour, blue and yellow, orange and green, red and violet."
"Through the Malay Archipelago"
Emily Richings