156 LYCKSELE LAPLAND. 



the situation, what could be obtained from 

 them would not pay for the trouble. But' 

 as no place in the whole Swedish territories 

 can aftbrd so much, and it might easily in 

 winter be conveyed twenty miles, surely 

 it deserves attention. 



In a grassy spot near the river I found a 

 rare species of Kanunculus, with a three- 

 leaved calyx and a little yellow upright 

 flower, which appears to be nondescript. 

 I met with it but twice or thrice in this 

 neighbourhood and no where else. (This is 

 R. lapponicus FL Lapp, n. ^31. t. 3.f. 4.) 



In the marshes I remarked that what I 

 had previously found on the hills, and 

 taken for a kind of white Bi/ssus, had here 

 possessed itself of the tops of the Bog- 

 moss (Sphagnum), and bore flesh-coloured 

 shields, so that an inexperienced observer 

 might easily be so far deceived by it as to 

 think those shields the fructification of the 

 Sp/iag7uim. [TAchen ericetor am. See FL 

 Lapp, n. 455.) 



It is remarkable that the Juniper here 



