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The fungus used for this purpose is an 

 Asraric with a bulbous stalk and crimson 

 cap {A. integer (2, Sp. PL). 



In the huts I observed suspended over 

 the tables two tails of the great female 

 Wood Grous (Tetrao Urogallus), spread 

 so as to make a kind of circular fan, which 

 had a handsome appearance. 



The Little Cotton-Grass (Eriophorum 

 alpinum) and the Mesomora {Cornus 

 suecica) grow abundantly in this neigh- 

 bourhood. About the water were several 

 Ephemera. I also caught a little insect of 

 the beetle (or coleopterous) kind, the shells 

 of which were red, the thorax blue with a 

 red margin, the whole shining with a tinge 

 of gold. In Lapland are scarcely any fleas, 

 no bugs, though plenty of lice, nor any 

 frogs nor serpents. 



