44 MEDELPAD. 



May 18. 



Being Ascension day, I spent it at this 

 place, partly on account of the holiday, 

 partly to rest my weary limbs and recruit 

 my strength. 



The country bears a great resemblance 

 to Helsingland, but is rather a more plea- 

 sant residence. 



I took a walk about the neighbourhood 

 to amuse myself with the beauties of Flora, 

 which were here but in their earliest spring. 

 I found an aquatic Violet with a white 

 flower, which very much resembled the 

 large wild Violet (Viola ca/mia), of which 

 I should have taken it for a variety had I 

 not compared them together. It always 

 grows near the water. The odd petal, or, 

 lip, is always more or less of a blueish 

 colour ; the rest whitish, generally indeed 

 quite white*. Close to this grew the little 



* Linnaeus appears to have neglected to describe 

 this Fiola in his printed works. May it not be 

 V. lactea, Fl. Brit. <2^1. Engl. Bot. vol. 7. /. 445 ? 



