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The flower was exactly like that of the 

 Mealy-berry {Arbutus Uva-ursi) ; each 

 stood on a simple stalk, and had five teeth 

 at its orifice. The fruit was of five cells, 

 globose, enclosed in the petal. (Arbutus 

 alpina.) 



I likewise found here a Catch-fly with 

 ten stamens and five styles [Lychuis alpina), 

 exactly similar to the common Catch-fly 

 (hychnis Viscaria), except that the flowers 

 were smaller and not so much scattered, 

 neither was the stem at all viscid. 



Birch trees were to be found even on the 

 highest part of this hill, bat of a very di- 

 minutive stature. Their trunks were thick 

 but low, and their highest shoots seemed 

 to have been killed by frost, so that the 

 3^oung leaves looked as if they were grow- 

 ing out of branches that had been burnt. 

 I was told that these trees aflbrd every year 

 but a very small portion of sap, and that 

 the wood is much harder than the common 

 kind. Such diminutive trees grow to a 



