10 UPLAND. 



stamens, placed in a quadrangular position, 

 and twc pistils. Thus it evidently approach- 

 es nearer to the SaxifragcB, as former bota- 

 nists have justly thought, than to the cani- 

 paniformes, or flowers with a monopetalous 

 corolla. 



AtYfre, two miles further, I noticed young 

 kids, under whose chins, at the commence- 

 ment of the throat, were a pair of tubercles, 

 like those sometimes seen in pigs, about an 

 inch long, of the thickness of their mother's 

 nipples, and clothed with a few scattered 

 hairs. Of their use I am ignorant. 



Near the church of Tierp runs a stream, 

 whose bank on the side where it makes a 

 curvature is very high and steep, owing to 

 timber placed close to the water. The 

 great power of a current, and the way in 



natural affinity of this plant, we may observe how his 

 own system, professedly artificial, and yet so affected- 

 ly despised by some botanists for not being natural, 

 led him to the real truth. In fact, some truth is to be 

 learnt from every system and every theory, but per- 

 fection is not to be expected from any one. 



