20 BENEFIT OF 



wanting to make them the veiy animals them- 

 felves, but noile, and motion ? Who imagined 

 thefe flowers grew in our countrey, and in fuch 

 plenty in Oeland, than they are to be met with 

 in every field ? 



Who would ever have thought of looking 

 in our countrey for the following exotics. The 

 winged pea^ the great burnet^ the perennial let- 

 tuce^ the dwarf carline thiftle^ the middle flea- 

 hane^ the black hellebore^ the Illyric crowfoot^ 

 much lefs the riccia^ and herb terrible^ and 

 efpeci-aily the fcorpion fena^ that moft beautiful 

 flirub, which in winter is carefully guarded 

 againfl. the frofts in the ftoves of our botanifls ; 

 yet all thefe have lately been obferved to grow 

 in Oeland and Gothland. 



We ufcd to purchafe at a great price from 

 forreigners the following medicinal plants, ver- 

 vain^ moneywort^ &c. which all are natives of 

 Sweden, and yet ten years ago nobody knew 

 this. 



What expences have we been at yearly to 

 get the glafs-wort^ of whofe afhes and fait, 

 glafs is made. The dyers weed and woad were 

 purchafed yearly at a very high price ; plants 

 that we have at lafl found grow eveiy where 

 about our provincesr 



Lapland 



