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bright red colour before expansion, and when 

 full grown of a flesh colour. Scarcely any 

 painter's art can, he says, so happily imitate 

 the beauty of a fine complexion. This great 

 botanist portrays in a very interesting manner, 

 in his " Flora Lapponica," his discovery of an- 

 other species, (^Andromeda tetragona) which he 

 found on the celebrated mouuta^ri Wallivari, in 

 the district of Lulea. " "Whilst I was walking 

 quickly along, facing the cold wind, at midnight, if 

 I may call it night, when the sun was shining 

 without setting at all, still anxiously inquiring 

 of my interpreter how near I was to a Lapland 

 dwelling, which I had for two hours been ex- 

 pecting, though I knew not its precise situation, 

 casting my eager eyes around me in all direc- 

 tions, I perceived as it were the shadow of this 

 plant, but did not stop to examine it, taking it for 

 the empetrum, (Croiv-herry.) But after going 

 a few steps farther, an idea of its being some- 

 thing I was unacquainted with, came across 

 my mind, and I turned back, when I should 

 have again taken it for the empetrum, had not 

 its greater height caused me to consider it with 

 more attention. I know not what it is that so 

 deceives the sight on our Alps, during night, 

 as to render objects far less distinct than in the 

 middle of the day, though the sun shines 

 equally bright. The sun being near the horizon, 

 spreads its rays in such a horizontal direction, 

 that a hat can scarcely protect oiu- eyes ; besides, 

 the shadows of plants are so infinitely extended, 

 and so confounded with each other, from tlie 



