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quite open, made it look quite yellow. 

 The leaves were not yet come out. 



IN fome meadows the grafs was already 

 grown up pretty high : bat it is to be ob- 

 ferved, that thefe meadows were marfhy, 

 and that no cattle had been n them this 

 year. Thefe meadows are mown twice a 

 year, viz. in May, and the end of Aug^H 9 

 or beginning of Auguft, did ftyle^ I law 

 fome meadows of this kind to-day, in 

 which I faw grafs which was now alrnoft 

 fit to be mown ; and many meadows in 

 Sweden have not fuch grafs at the proper 

 time of mowing, as thefe had now -, thefe 

 meadows lay in marfhes and vallies, where 

 the Sun had very great power : the grafs 

 confifted merely of Cyperus-grafs or Carex. 



THE wild Prune-trees were now every 

 Where in flower; they grow here and there 

 in the woods, but commonly near marfhes 

 and in Wet ground ; they are diftingui(hable 

 by their white flowers : the fruit when, 

 ripe is eatable. 



THE Cor mi s Florida, or Dogwood* grows 

 in the forefts, on hills, on plains, in val- : 

 lies, in marfhes, and near rivulets. I can- 

 not therefore fay, which is its native foil $ 

 however, it feems that in a low but not a 

 Wet foil it fucceeds beft j it was now 

 adorned with- its great fnowy Involucra, 

 L 2 which 



