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but in every other particular the same. (C. 

 vesicaria.) A grass with a slender dark- 

 coloured panicle, approaching the stem. 

 (Jgrostis rubra, Fl. Lapp, n. 46.) 



July 25. 



The lakes in this part of tlie country did 

 not afford me so many plants as further 

 south. Their bottoms were quite clear, and 

 destitute of vegetation. Their shores were 

 no less barren. No Water-lilies (Ni/mphcEce), 

 no Water-docks, &c., (different species of 

 Kumex,) grew about their borders, but the 

 surface of the water itself was covered with 

 the Water Ranunculus (R. aquatilis), bear- 

 ing round as well as capillary leaves, and 

 whitening the whole with its blossoms. I 

 could not but wonder to see these broad 

 patches of white spread over the lakes, 

 though, when I passed up the country but 

 a fortnight before, I had not perceived the 

 least appearance of even the herbage of the 

 Jianunculus that composed them. Now its 



