138 LYCKSELE LAPLAND. 



tive, and grew mostly in fens or watery 

 places. The Crake berries (Empetrum 

 nigrum) were as large as the Black Bil- 

 berry. Close to a waterfall in Juita Ro- 

 too^viek or Rootforsen, in a marsh on the 

 right hand, I found Herb Paris (Paris 

 quadrifolia), Aconitum lycoctonum and 

 Thalictrum (jiavum). But what most sur- 

 prised and pleased me was the little round- 

 leaved Yellow Violet, with a branched stem, 

 and narrow, smooth, not bearded, petals, 

 described by Morison, which had not be- 

 fore been observed in Sweden {Viola 

 biflora). 



Several kinds of Willows grew every 

 where near the water, but had not yet 

 displayed their leaves. 



I came to a hut, consisting of eighteen 

 posts, covered with walmal, or coarse cloth, 

 ten feet long and eight broad. Also some 

 winter huts, the poles of which the Lap- 

 landers remove with them from place to 

 place. Each hut is formed with three poles, 

 forked at the top. Under the shelter of 



