116 LYCKSELE LAPLAND. 



sprung up in abundance, and wherever the 

 Birch abounded, the pasture ground was 

 of the best quahty. 



At Flaskesele I found Riibiis alpinus re- 

 peiks (R. saxatilis), Triejitalis, Aconitum 

 li/coctonumy Ulmaria (Spircea), Podagraria 

 tcnuifoUa sterilia (probably Angelica syU 

 vest?-is)y PoJypodium Dri/opferis, Thymelcea 

 of the old writers {Daphne Mezereurn), 

 Herb Christopher (Actcea spicata), and 

 Juniper {Juniperus communis) ; also Xz- 

 chenoides with a greyish white crust and 

 flesh-coloured tubercles, growing in watery 

 places {Lichen ericetor um), and another 

 on stones with black tubercles. A yellow 

 species with a leafy crust grew on the Ju- 

 niper {L. juni per inus). 



I remarked here water abounding with 

 a red ochraceous sediment like arnotto 

 {Bixa Orellana), such as I had before seen 

 further south. It was chiefly in the bogs 

 near Flaskesele water-fall that this ochre was 

 to be found, and it stained the footsteps of 



