f)'2 LULEAN LAPLAXD. 



branches, an ell in length, swam on the 

 surface. The growth of the stem must be 

 very rapid, as it often proceeded from a 

 depth of three fathoms. Some of the plants 

 thrown up on the shore had capillary leaves, 

 as are all those which o;row under the water. 

 The root resembles that of the Iris. 



I noticed also the Pond weed with leaves 

 clasping the stem (Potamogetofi perfolia- 

 turn, rare in Lapland) ; and a very large 

 branched floating Water-grass, with cylin- 

 drical spikes, which I hesitate whether to 

 separate from the Gramcn aquaticinn geni- 

 culatum spicafum, (of Bauhin and Rud- 

 beck. A lopecurus gcniculatus of Linnaeus. 

 The grass of which he here speaks is n. 38 

 of his Flora Lapponica. A. genkulatus (o^ 

 Sp. PL 89.) 



The annexed figure represents the Nor- 

 wegian cross-bow, used for shooting squir- 

 rels, which it will hit at the distance of 

 twenty or thirty paces as certainly as a gun. 



It was curious to observe the dexte- 



