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of grass-like leaves. There are likewise two or three species 

 of the beautiful Willow-herb tribe (Epilobium) . 



Near the sea-coast grow Sea Sandwort (Arenaria peplo- 

 ides] ; another plant something like our BircPs-foot Trefoil 

 (Lotus sillquosus] ; and one of Ragged Robin's relations, 

 called Sea Campion (Silene maritimd), with "white petals 

 and a purple calyx, beautifully reticulated;" and here too 

 grows Danish Scurvy-grass (Cocklearia Danica) . 



In the open plains grows a small kind of Rhododendron 

 (R. Lapponicum) ; its structure shows it to be of the same 

 family with the beautiful American shrub of that name, but 

 there is about as much resemblance to it in its general ap- 

 pearance as there is between the little Azalea before men- 

 tioned and the Azaleas of the greenhouse : both are here 

 associated together. In such situations too grow the Red 

 "Whortleberry or Cowberry ( Vaccmium VUis-id(za) ; the 

 Cranberry or Marsh Whortleberry ( Vaccimum Oxy coccus] ; 

 and three species of the heath- like Andromeda, one species 

 of which (A. tetragona) we met with in the Polar Zone, 

 with little white cup-like flowers on long hair-like stalks. 



The manner in which this flower was first discovered by 

 Linnseus himself in his Lapland tour, is too interesting to 

 be omitted. "Equally a stranger to the language and to 



