156 LIJLKAN LAPLAND. 



had wondered what species it could be ; 

 especially as I never heard of any botanist 

 who had met with the tVactiiication. It is 

 a Sp(irga?iiin/i, whose leaves are very long, 

 reaching a fallioin or Iwo^ according to the 

 depth of the water, and floating on its sur- 

 face. Thev are convex at their back, ex- 

 cept in the lower part, which is flat on 

 both sides. (This plant named Flofagrcis, 

 or Flote-grass, in Linnaus's native country 

 of Smoland, is the Sparganium n. 345 * of 

 FL Lapp, in the second edition of which 

 work I have called it S. rmians, on his own 

 authority in the Flora Siiccica and Species 

 Vlantarum ; but in Fnglish Botany, v. 4. 

 273, andl'Y. Brit. 9^2, this error is cor- 

 rected, so far at least as concerns the ori- 

 ginal Lapland specimen, which is unques- 

 tionably «S'. simplex., EngL Bot, v. 11. 

 t, 745, a species he did not, in his w^orks, 

 distinouish from our common S. ramosum, 

 t. 744. I am novv persuaded he confound- 

 ed this simplex with tlie natans in his Lap- 

 land tour, as well as in his herbarium, 



