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quite open, made it look quite yellow. 

 The leaves were not yet come out. 



In fome meadows the grafs was already 

 grown up pretty high : but it is to be ob- 

 served, that thefe meadows were marfhyv 

 and that no cattle had been on thern this 

 year. Thefe meadows are mown twice a 

 year, viz. in May, and the end of Aiigufti 

 cr beginning of Augujl, old ftyle. I law 

 fome meadows of this kind to-day, in 

 which I faw grafs which was now al aloft 

 fit to be mown 3 and many meadows in 

 Sweden have not fuch grafs at the proper 

 time of mowing, as thefe had now ; thefe 

 meadows lay in marfhes and vallies, where 

 the Sun had very great power : the grafs 

 confided merely of ' Cy 'per ftj -grafs or Cdrex. 



The wild F rune-trees were now every 

 Where in flower; they grow here and there 

 in the woods, but commonly near marfhes 

 and in wet ground ; they are diftinguifhable 

 by their white flowers : the fruit when 

 ripe is eatable. 



The Cornus Florida, or Dogwood, grows 

 in the forefts, on hills, on plains, in val- 

 lies, in marfhes, arid near rivulets. I can- 

 not therefore fay, which is its native foil ; 

 however, it feems that in a low but not a 

 wet lbii.it fucceeds beft ; it was now 

 adorned with its great ibowy Involucra, 

 L z which 



