§0 LULEAN LAPLAND. 



SO tight as to make themselves as red in 

 the face as if they were half strangled. 



We Swedes are accustomed to have all 

 our clothing made very tight. Not only 

 the neckcloth, but the coat, waistcoat, 

 breeches, stockings, sleeves, &c., must all 

 stick close to the body, and the tighter 

 they are the more fashionable. The Lap- 

 landers, on the contrary, wear only two, 

 and those slight, bandages about them, 

 which moreover arc broad, and therefore 

 less injurious than a narrow bandage in any 

 part. Those to which I allude are the 

 waistband and knees of their breeches, both 

 made sufficiently loose and easy. 



To-day I gathered the following plants. 

 — A reed-like panicled Grass, wdth a very 

 slender branched stem. (This appears to 

 have been Arundo Calamagrostis, Fl. Lapp, 

 n. 42.) 



A great aquatic Carex, with inflated, 

 whitish, pendulous spikes. In more dry 

 situations they were upright and shorter, 



