I io THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINNAEUS 



druggist filled his pockets. The waysides were lovely 

 with the whitethorn flowers. In the evening they 

 went out to hear a sort of bird sing that they call there 

 the Kladror ; they found it to be really a nightingale. 

 They rested for the nighb in Glomminge, further south. 



4 They know in Oland by the name of tock a shrub 

 which is very rare in the whole world. Botanists had 

 hitherto known only two places where it grows York 

 in England, and Siberia, where it had been recently 

 discovered. It is called Shrubby potentilla. 1 It is the 

 size of a lavender or hyssop bush ; it loses its bark every 

 year. The flowers are yellow. It was known to Ray 

 (Rajus, Linnaeus calls him), Morrison, Miller, Walther, 

 and Ammann.' 



They went on coasting the low cliff to Resmo in a 

 fever of enjoyment, brimming with discoveries, staying 

 that night at the provost Wellin's (listening to the 

 nightingale), and the next night at Kastlosa. 



1 We went on a track leading to some coal-pits we 

 had heard of, and seeking the inn at Dalby ; but the 

 innkeeper, who was to have shown his discovery of 

 them to us, was away in Sm&land, and his people were 

 suspicious of us. They did, indeed, show us a coal-pit, 

 but it seemed to be an English one. The "boots" 

 showed us a place north-east of the inn, and said that 

 the innkeeper had found a coal-pit there, but up came 

 the master's daughter behind us and showed us another 

 spot on a hill. She tried all she could to misdirect us 

 1 Potentilla' fruticosa. 



