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tuse petals (see FL Lapp. n. 139, s)- The 

 Water Epilohium in this place had very 

 broad leaves. (E. palustre (B. Sp. PL 495. 

 Fl. Lopp. 11. 148.) Geranium (sijlvaticum) 

 had sometimes a white flower with purple 

 veins, and blue anthers ; sometimes the pe- 

 tals, as well as anthers, were white. 



THE LAPLAND ALPS. 



Juli/ 6. 



In the afternoon I took leave of Hyttan, 

 and, at the distance of a mile from thence, 

 arrived at the mountain of Wallavari 

 (or Hzimllawai'i), a quarter of a mile in 

 height. When I reached this mountain, I 

 seemed entering on a new world ; and when 

 I had ascended it, I scarcely knew whether 

 I was in Asia or Africa, the soil, situation, 

 and every one of the plants, being equally 

 strange to me. Indeed I was now, for the 

 first time, upon the Alps ! Snowy moun- 

 tains encompassed me on every side. I 



