224» EAST BOTHLAND. 



The heads or branches either serve for 

 firing, or, as often happens, are left to rot 

 on the ground. 



Three miles below Wasa I recognised 

 the Climbing Nightshade (Solamim Did- 

 camara). In the town itself I had noticed 

 {Leonurus) Cardiaca, and Henbane {Hy- 

 oscyamns niger). Near the shore grew 

 Salix olecefolia with its berries, (Hippophae 

 rliamnoides). It is known by the name 

 of FinnhcEv or Surbär^ (Finn-berries, or 

 Sour berries). The fruit is situated be- 

 low the leaves, as in the Alder. The 

 footstalks are two lines long. Berries 

 bluntly oval, of a tawny orange-colour, 

 three or four lines long, smooth, sour, hav- 

 ing a watery pulp mixed with ochraceous 

 matter. Seed solitary, roundish-oblong, 

 slightly compressed, obtuse, attached by 

 its lower edge to a membrane which en- 

 folds it. When this cover is removed, the 

 seed itself appears brown and polished, 

 having u longitudinal groove at each side. 

 The fishermen eat these berries bruised, 



