136 TOR NEA, 



August 5. 

 Every body at Tornea was continually 

 talking to me oF a distemper to which their 

 horned cattle are subject, and which kills 

 many of them in the course of the winter, 

 but e:?pecially in the spring, when they lose 

 from fifty to a hundred head of cattle al- 

 most every year. On walking to examine 

 the meadow into which they are first turn- 

 ed out to grass, I found it a bog or marsh, 

 where the Water Hemlock, Cicuta aquati- 

 ca, (C. virosa, Sp. Fl. S66. FL Lapp, 

 n, 103. Engl. Bot. t. 479») grew in abun- 

 dance, and had evidently been cropped 

 plentifully by the animals in feeding. It 

 seemed probable therefore that they eat it 

 most in the spring, when first turned into 

 this pasture ; whence it proves so much 

 more extensively fatal than in summer, 

 when perhaps they only pick up a plant 

 here and there. It grows in all the moist 

 meadows which are mown for hay ; conse^ 



