258 THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINNAEUS 



The Scanian feather-pink ! clothed the sandy plains 

 with its fragrant white flowers. 



Even at that time many fine houses were to be 

 counted in the neighbourhood of Christianstad. On 

 May 25 Linnseus was received at the noble estate of 

 Mr. Rammel at Maltesholm, now the residence of Count 

 de la Gardie, surrounded by a clear moat, with French 

 gardens and an English park an exquisite place. 

 Here he finds plenty to describe, and next day he 

 turns S.E. to Hwitskofle, c a place equally excellent, the 

 heritage of Countess Ascherberg ; a place looking like 

 a castle with walls and towers.' 2 On his way to Raflunda 

 he saw a high waterfall, called Forssakar, near which 

 one could best observe the lie of the strata of the land. 

 The courteous and learned pastor of Raflunda indus- 

 triously accompanied Linnaeus to see everything of note. 

 Here he remarks the straw-thatched houses, a mode 

 of roofing almost unknown in other parts of Sweden. 

 Houseleeks and strange vegetables grow thereon. Trout 

 are abundant in the little river. 



* Having never seen the corallina of Pallas's "Zoo- 

 phyta," I have a thousand times wondered whether it 

 could have been produced like the Ulva intestinalis, a 

 marine plant .which grows on housetops in Scania,' 3 as 

 recorded (by Linnaeus) June 1749. 



Ellis writes to Linnaeus: 'As to vegetable sub- 



1 Dianthus Scanensis. 



2 Few of these fortified baronial castles exist now in Sweden. 



3 Sn.ith. 



