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in winter ten or twelve fathoms, I observed 

 an Alder thicket now white with little 

 patches of Trientalis and Mesomora (Tri- 

 entalis europaa and Cornus suecica), whose 

 snowy blossoms were a great ornament to 

 the shore. Ray therefore justly mentions* 

 the latter plant as growing in maritime 

 places in Sweden. Here likewise grew the 

 Male and Female Lychnis (L. dioica), for 

 the most part with red flowers, very rarely 

 with white; as well as the Graineii miliaceitm 

 {Milium effusum ?), and a Rush two feet 

 high, with its sharp stem reaching a span 

 above the panicle, which is lateral, and 

 divided into three principal branches. Of 

 this there was also a smaller variety. (This 

 Rush must have been the Juncus effusiis. 

 See FL Lapp, n. 117.) 



The people hereabouts talked much of 

 mountains haunted by hobgoblins, parti- 

 cularly the hill called Svenberget, situated 

 between new and old Pithoea ; also of seas 



* See his Historia Plantanim, v.\. G55, which 

 Linnaeus here correctly quotes from memory. 



