1 82 THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINN&US 



Tetrao ; it is respectably tough, and very meaty on the 

 back, contrary to the usual structure of foreign fowls. 



Linnseus left out the then unchristened Karlsborg, 

 and pushed on from Skofde towards Falkoping, by 

 way of Ramstad, where he notices the cornflower gives 

 a blue, and the mustard l a yellow, colour to the 

 barley-fields, the corn is so thin. The views are very 

 fine about here. From Torbiornstorp he explores the 

 terraces 2 of the Mosseberg, which rises 820 feet high, 

 west of Falkoping. He notes a kind of lily-of-the-valley, 3 

 and the auricula 4 &c. The rock-rose, 5 that is elsewhere 

 so common in Sweden, he had not seen in this tour until 

 he came here. He spent a rainy Sunday (June 29) in 

 Falkoping, a very small town. 6 Next day he travelled 

 to Olleberg, which, like the Mosseberg, resembles the 

 Kinnekulle in formation, with trap rock at the summit. 

 The growth of grass is fine here as at Kinnekulle and 

 Billingen, but always finest on the north side. He 

 discovered two waterfalls on the east side of the Mosse- 

 berg, where there is now a hydropathic establishment. 

 He passed by Odenskull to Kleswa, lying at the foot of 

 the forest of this name. The houses hereabout are 

 mostly built of oak. July 2 (the Visitation of B.V. Mary) 

 he says they went from Asen to Allestad. It rained 

 the whole day. Mr. Rudberg, the burgomaster of 



1 Sinapis arvensis. 2 Strata-terra. 8 ConvaUa-ria verticillata. 



4 Primula farinosa. 6 Cistus Helianthemum. 



6 The scene of Margaret de Waldemar's victory over King 

 Albert of Sweden in 1389, in consequence of which the three 

 Scandinavian kingdoms were united by the treaty of Kalmar. 



