210 REY. F. A. WALKER, D.D., F.L.S., ETC., 
have christened by the poetical appellation of “ Baldursbra,” 
or “brow of the god Baldur,” after that youthful -and 
beautiful deity of the Scandinavian mythology. 
Our traveller will doubtless take an early opportunity of 
visiting that eminently peaceful scene, the cemetery of 
Reykjavik, situate above the clear lake, and in the most un- 
broken stillness, as there is no wheeled vehicle in Iceland; 
where rests the late Dr. Jon Hyjaltalin, that eminent physi- 
cian of European reputation. When there he will not fail 
to gather the pretty little Erigeron alpinum (alpine flea- 
bane), not unlike a small Michaelmas daisy, except that its 
outer petals are somewhat pinker, and growing plentifully 
on the grassy mounds, although so rare and local a denizen 
of the Breadalbane hills with ourselves. After inspecting 
this last resting-place of the departed, and observing the 
Angelica Islandica in the little garden plots on the road 
thither (differmg from our own wild angelica in haying 
green instead of white blossoms, but like it, used for confec- 
tionary, a native of the Iceland mountains, but only seen by 
me as indeed by most travellers in a state of cultivation) he 
may turn his steps to the mght, across Vatnsmyri moor, 
where numerous patches of the white bells of Silene mari- 
tima shake and quiver on the bare ground of its wind- 
swept expanse. And on advancing further m the direction 
of Vesturgata, or West Street, and the sea-shore, he will 
make his first acquaintance with Eriophorum Scheuchzeri, 
the arctic species of cotton grass that lends a snowy ap- 
pearance to that boggy portion of the moor over which it 
abounds. In the open air it is, to all appearance, as snowy- 
white as any British species, but when gathered and brought 
home, it will be found to be of a yellower tint, as is per- 
fectly evident to any one who takes the troukle to compare 
them side by side. On arriving at the beach, he cannot fail 
to admire the rosy buds and blue flowrets that deck the 
tendrils of Mertensia maritima, as it straggles across the 
shingle, where also he will find Cakile maritima, but more 
sparingly, as less qualified by nature to stand a cold climate, 
and at the eastern end of a small lake that stretches parallel 
with tlie shore, the upright shoots of Hippuris vulgaris. Tf, 
on the other hand, he bend his steps to the sloping 
meadows that skirt the other little lake, or “ cjorn,” in the 
rear of the cathedral, he will find several of the maroon- 
coloured blossoms of Potentilla comarum, the species of 
sedge known as Carex erytocarpa, and likewise Caltha eu- 
palustris, which last-named plant fringes the watercourses 
