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Riibus saxatilis. On one called Korsholm 

 I met with a sort of Behen. Can it be the 

 same with that which grows in cornfields? 

 Their diflfereKt parts are tolerably alike. 

 This grew among the pebbles of the beach. 

 Its calyx is oblong. Leaves narrow. Stem 

 erect. Fruit of one cell. In other respects 

 it resembles Behen. (This was Cucubalus 

 [Behen) variety the third, or y^ Fl. Lapp, 

 n. 180. ed. 2. 149- Silene maritima^ FL 

 Brit. 468. Engl. Bot. t. 957. We have 

 found it remain for many years unchanged 

 in a garden, propagating itself by seed, 

 though Linnaeus reports that the third year 

 he could not disimguish his from our com- 

 mon Silene injiata, his Cucubalus Behen.) 



CECONOMICAL REMARKS 



CONCERNING 



THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF TORNEA. 



The soil is various, sometimes clay, 

 sometimes sand. The corn-fields are sown 

 every other year, and lie fallow the inter- 

 mediate seasons, half of each field lying 



