278 LULEAN LAPLAND. 



traverse the fields of Scania and the mea- 

 dows of Upland in the early spring, did 

 not occur during my whole journey till after 

 I had ascended the Lapland Alps, where it 

 grew very sparingly, furnished with only 

 two or three flowers, and those of a very 

 pale hue, so that in the mountains of Lap- 

 land it deserves neither the name of Ceesar 

 nor of Regulus*. The stem of the plant, 

 however, in these regions was a span or 

 more in height, which is hardly the case 

 in any other part of Sweden/' Fl. Lapp, 

 ed. 2. 51. Hence it appears that the real 

 P. farinosa ought to be struck out of the 

 Lapland Flora, provided no botanist has 

 found it there since Linnieus made the 

 above remarks.) 



Sceptrum CaroUnum was in blossom 

 near the water, as well as the gloomy 

 Aconitum [hjcoctomnn), " Avhose flowers 

 with us are not yellow, as the synonyms of 



* See Simler, who calls the Primula farinosa 

 " Caesar or Kegulus among herbs." 



