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it may become plentiful. There is little birch in Kautokeino. There is also 

 bccccc-lappo and guossa-lappo. Bœcce-lappo is a little coarser than guossa- 

 lappo\ 



Jørgen M. Sara's conception that uallo-jœgcl, duolbha-jcvgcl, siiiari've 

 and oaivvc-jœgcl are onh' four stages of evolution of the proper reindeer- 

 lichen is interesting, even if it is not correct from a scientific point ot \-iew. 

 For it is an expression of the correct observation that the lichens regene- 

 rate in that order on a field where the lichen-cover has been destroyed 

 by fire or in other ways. Se\'eral Laplanders maintain that ranes-jcegel 

 develop into oaivvr-jivgcl when grown out. 



Nephroma is the only lichen mentioned above which the reindeer does 

 not eat or only eats in case of distress. 



The importance of the different lichens as food for reindeer has been 

 discussed in the following papers: 



Lönnberg, Einar. Om rename och deras lefnadsvanor. Upsala 1909. 

 Chapter III. Renames föda p. 140 — 164.) (On the Reindeer and their 

 habits. The Food of the Reindeer). 



Indstilling fra Fjeldbeitekomiteen om Harangviddens utnyttelse. Kri- 

 stiania 191 1. Tamreinens ernæring p. 44 — 49. (Report from the Com- 

 mittee on the Exploitation of Harangvidden. The food of the tame 

 Reindeer). 



Renbeteskommissionen af ar 1909. Handlingar Band I, page 46 — 57, 

 avsnittet Om renens foda. (The 'Reindeer Committee' of 1909. Transac- 

 tions vol. I p. 46 — 57: On the Food of the Reindeer). 



Neither of these works contains any information on Lapponian lichen 

 names. 



POSTSCRIPT. 



After the above article had alread}- been sent to the printing-office, I 

 have — as imparted in the footnote pag. 239 — by discourse with some 

 Lapps in Trondelagen procured so much information of the Southern Lap- 

 ponian Lichen names, that I choose to put them in a postscript. 



My informants are chiefly the Lapps Lars Johnsen and Anders Bar- 

 rock, both born in Västerbotten in Sweden (respectively in Tärna and in 

 Vilhelmina). Besides I have gathered some particulars from the Lapps 

 Sofie Nordfjeld and Anders Paulsen, both born in Røros. The dialect 

 of all these informants must be characterized as 'South-Lapponian'; but in 

 this dialect or group of dialects there is much difi'erence as well in phone- 

 tical and grammatical respect as with respect to terminology. Most likely 

 it is this difference in dialect, that discloses oneself in the undermentioned 

 different names of Cetraria Islandica. Personally however I have no further 



