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red colour, with black branching lines sur- 

 rounding the whole body, and a golden head. 



(This appears by the drawing, here copied 

 from the original manuscript, to be C/iry- 

 somela lapponica.) Here grew a Salix 

 with ovate-oblong leaves, very hairy all 

 over i^S. lanata) ; its catkins were, for the 

 most part, far advanced and faded. 



In the evening I arrived at Jamtboht, 

 where some women were sitting employed 

 in cutting the bark of the aspen-tree {Po- 

 puliis tremula) into small pieces, scarcely 

 an inch long, and not half so broad. The 

 bark is stripped from the tree just when the 

 leaves begin to sprout forth, and laid up 

 in a place under the roof of a house till 

 autumn or the following spring, when it is 

 cut into the small fragments above de- 

 scribed. In this state it serves as food for 

 cows, goats and sheep, instead of hay, the 

 latter being a very scarce article in these 



