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Blackberry -bushes, grew here and there especially in the 

 hedges, gardesgardar. The stalks were often 18 feet 

 long and more. They did not stand erect, but when they 

 had grown about a fathom in height they curved down 

 to the ground, and afterwards crept along it. It was 

 not good to get along where these grew abundantly, 

 on account of their long thorns. In the hedges they 

 were not so uneven. The leaves were fallen off most of 

 them, but on some few they were still remaining. 



Hedera [H. Helix, 190], called by the Englishmen 

 Ivy, grew on a great many of the trees, up which it had 

 clambered. In particular, it had taken up its abode in 

 the crown which had been formed after carpinus (horn- 

 beam) beech, and oak, had been polled, but the stalk 

 went from the crown close to the tree down to the 

 ground. It had green, fresh, and beautiful leaves. 



Spartium, 589 [S. Scoparium, now Cytisus Scoparius] 

 Broom, grew here and there on the borders of the woods. 



Ruscus C. B. [R. Aculeatus] Butcher's Broom, grew in 

 some places in the woods, but was quite small. The 

 leaves fresh and green ; it had also remained in flower the 

 whole winter, and flowers were now beginning to expand. 

 The leaves ended in a spine, en tagg. The plant was 

 pretty to have at the borders of garden beds, where 

 box, buxbom, is now otherwise used. 



Daphne, Linn. Hort. Ups. 94, [D. Laureola] Spurge 

 Laurel, grew here and there in the wood, though in few 

 places. 



[T. I. p. 151] . The climate of England is quite 

 different from that of Sweden, which the inhabitants 

 ascribe partly to the more southerly position of the 

 country, partly and principally to the surrounding ocean. 

 The ground was here everywhere now quite green and 

 bare of snow, except that some still remained near a 

 few hedges, gardesgard, which was left from the 



