i8o THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINNAEUS 



dedicated to our Lady in Sweden, the ground here is 

 carpeted with a rhododendron with small white flowers 

 and ferruginous leaves (a white alpine rose) inter- 

 mingled with the pink Andromeda, resembling a deli- 

 cate wild Jcalmiaj the wintergreen, a small fragile 

 white starry flower, the plant three to four inches high ; * 

 cranberries, and bilberries with their waxen blossoms ; 

 a miniature lily-of-the-valley with heart-shaped leaves ; 2 

 a nameless low growth, hardly a shrub, with green 

 catkins in bunches ; a strawberry flowered buttercup ; 3 

 an unnamed lychnis, on a tall grass-like viscid stem ; 

 and various others I found, all in one turn of the head. 

 Wild strawberries, raspberries, whortleberries, and other 

 fruit plants were plentiful, and some of them nearly 

 ripe. This Karlsborg is a charming place, situated at 

 the entrance of Bottensjo, an arm of the Vettern, that 

 runs deep into the land, dividing the two great Swedish 

 lakes, and commanded by the hill of the Yaberg, rising 

 580 feet above the Vettern. 



Karlsborg, the largest fortress in Sweden, and the 

 only fortress in the interior, intended as a base for 

 the defence of the country, was founded in 1820 by 

 Karl XIV. (Bernadotte). The approach to the fort is 

 by a granite gateway with a pointed arch an elegant 

 example of military architecture. He was a monarch 

 of taste who built it ; but scarcely, one would think, a 

 monarch of sense. One sees no reason for building a 



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