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Seas, rivers, and becks were open, only some fish- 

 pond, fisk-dam, and some small pool, liten puss, had 

 still ice at the end of February, when it was unusually 

 cold here, but now they were all thawed, uptinade. It 

 is looked upon as a very unusual thing when the river 

 Thames at London is over-drawn with ice. One who 

 lives there does not have the advantage of enjoying this 

 treat many times in his life. It is true that sometimes 

 during the winter a little snow falls here, but it seldom 

 lies longer than three days, and when this does happen 

 it is looked upon as something unusual, for which reason 

 also those who live about London do not know what a 

 sled, slada, is. 



The 8th March, 1748. 



Plants standing in flower at this date included only 

 the following, which are partly among England's wild 

 plants, and partly planted in their gardens. I except 

 here Genista Spinosa and Ruscus, which also now stood 

 in flower, because I have just mentioned them. We 

 wandered a long way round about, and made a note of 

 those we saw standing in flower. 



Crocus vermis was planted in gardens at the edges of 

 flower beds, and especially on both sides of paths, where 

 it formed a great ornament with its yellow, gTlla, flowers 

 at this time of year. I saw it also with white, blue, and 

 blue-grey flowers, though seldom. 



[T. I. p. 153]. Galanthus [G. Nivalis], Snowdrop, 

 was planted in gardens in the same kind of places as 

 the crocus. Of our wild plants in Sweden, the following 

 were in flower, which are numbered as in Linn. Flora 

 Sufcica : 



Alsine, 369 [Stellaria Media]. 



Lamium, 494 [Lamium purpureum]. 



Senecio, 690 [Senecio Vulgaris]. 



Bellis, 707 [B. perennis] Daisy. 



