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ward, or, as often happens, he is caught 

 by the foot. 



On a sand-hill near the church at Tor- 

 nea, grew, in great abundance, Gramen 

 spied triticea marilimiim, (Triticitm radice 

 repentc, foliis rigidis ; FL Lapp. 7i. 34, 

 which, in the second ediiion of that work, 

 p. 23, I have, by the persuasion of my in- 

 telligent friend Dr. Afzelius, referred to 

 Eli/miis arenarius, and what Linneeus here 

 says, confirms this determination.) Its blue 

 leaves looked quite different from all others, 

 and very handsome. I picked some seeds 

 from the spikes, which Mere as large as 

 grains of rye. Hence I was induced to 

 consider whether this plant might not serve 

 as a kind of corn, to be cultivated on such 

 dry and blowing sands, provided the pro- 

 per method of managing it could be dis- 

 covered, which surely would not be a very 

 difficult task. The advantage of this would 

 be that, by such means, many sandy tracts, 

 where nothing else will grow, might be 

 turned to advantage ; and the perennial 



