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reddish, clothed with white down. (See 

 Engl BoLv.26. f. 1809.) 



Near the new town of Pithoea, close to 

 the shore, grew the round-leaved Water 

 Violet {Viola pahistris) with perfectly snow- 

 white flowers. 



The Dwarf-cypress moss {Lycopodium 

 complanatum) is rather plentiful hereabouts, 

 and is used for dyeing yarn. For this pur- 

 pose it is boiled with birch leaves, gathered 

 at midsummer. It gives a yellow colour 

 to woollen cloths. On the shore near old 

 Lulea grew Raminculus minimus parisi-> 

 ensis (R. reptans). 



The new town of Lulea is very small, si- 

 tuated on a peninsula, encompassed by a 

 kind of bay. The soil is extremely barren. 

 Indeed the town stands on a little eminence, 

 which is a mere heap of stones, with sea- 

 sand in their interstices. It seems as if the 

 sea had carried away all the earth, and, 

 like a beast of prey, had left nothing but 

 the bones, throwing sand over them to 

 conceal its ravages. 



