284 THE LAPLAND ALPS. 



walked in snow, as if it had been the se- 

 verest winter. All the rare plants that I 

 had previously met with, and which had 

 from time to time afforded me so much 

 pleasure, were here as in miniature, and 

 new ones in such profusion, that I was over- 

 come with astonishment, thinking I had 

 now found more than I should know what 

 to do with. 



1. Alchemilla with fingered leaves, silky 

 underneath, but without flowers. {^A, al- 

 pina.) 



2. Jussiea^, with ternate leaves, abrupt 

 and three-toothed at their extremities. 

 {Sibbaldia procianbens.) The calyx is of 

 one leaf, very large, in ten segments, the 



* In this and many following instances^ the original 

 names in the manuscript are here retained, as a matter 

 of curiosity to the learned botanist, who will be in- 

 terested in seeing to whom Linnaeus extemporaneously 

 dedicated his new genera as they occurred, and who 

 will at the same time admire his sagacity, in deter- 

 mining them, at first sight, so correctly, that not one 

 has subsequently been set aside by any of his severest 

 critics. 



