58 A^^GERMANLAND. 



in growth, and ripens the year following, 

 without any further cultivation, the crop 

 being very abundant. The corn so pro- 

 duced is called Kappsäd. 



Today I met with no flowers, except 

 the Wood Sorrel (Oralis Acetosella), which 

 is here the primula, or first flower of the 

 spring. The Convallaria bifoUa and Straw- 

 berry-leaved Bramble {Iluhus arcticus) 

 were plentifully in leaf. 



The rocks are generally of a whitish hue, 

 the uppermost side' indeed being rather 

 darker from the injuries of the air, and the 

 minute mosses that clothe it. 



The inhabitants make the same kind of 

 broad cakes of bread, which have already 

 been described. The flour used for this 

 purpose commonly consists of one part 

 barley and three of chaff. When they 

 wish to have it very good, and the coun- 

 try is rich in barley, they "add but two 

 portions of chafl:^ to one of corn*. The 



* How would this very good bread suit English 

 stomachs ? This honest adulteration has not been 



