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trees. In ditches by the way side the 

 Water Byssus was observable {Bi/ssus 

 Flos aquce), particularly in places shel- 

 tered from the wind. It greatly re- 

 sembles the cream of milk, and is called 

 by the peasants U atnct blommar, or Water 

 Flower. 



A number of mares with their colts were 

 grazing every where near the road. I re- 

 marked the great length of the young ani- 

 mals' legs, which according to common 

 opinion are as long at their birth as they 

 ever will be ; therefore if a measure be 

 taken from the hoof up to the knee of a 

 young colt, and so on from the knee to the 

 extremity, it will give the height of the 

 horse when full orown. A similar observa- 

 tion has been made on the size of the bones 

 in the ear of an infant. 



I observed the same kind of moss, or 

 rather Lichenoides terrestre, dcedaleis sitiu- 

 /jii.s, (Lichen nivalis,) which is found on 

 the hill near the palace at Upsal. 



Geese were now accompanied by their 



