152 LYCKSELE LAPLAND. 



The Cloudberry {Rubus C/iamcemorns) 

 abounded hereabouts, and was now in 

 bloom. The petals varied in number from 

 four to seven. I observed this plant blos- 

 soming equally well on the most lofty 

 mountains, as was also the case with the 

 Crake berry [Empettmm nigrum). 



I again met with the hemipterous insect 

 mentioned p. 31, which feeds on fish, and 

 with it another black and dotted one of the 

 coleopterous order, which is seen running 

 with the former among the scales of fish, 

 as well as in the crevices of the floors of 



passage on this subject from the Flora Lapponica. 

 " Tlie Lapland youth, having found this Agaric, 

 carefully preserves it in a little pocket hanging at his 

 waist, that its grateful perfume may render him more 

 acceptable to his favourite fair-one. O whimsical 

 Venus ! in olher regions you must be treated with 

 coffee and chocolate, preserves and sweetmeats, wines 

 and dainties, jewels and pearls, gold and silver, silks 

 and cosmetics, balls and assemblies, music and thea- 

 trical exhibitions : here you are satisfied with a little 

 withered funsrus !" 



