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lentum adeo et flexile effe, cum primum e terra eruitur, retuleiit, 

 ut viminis inftar, in quamvis partem trahi poflit ac fle&i. Fibris 

 conftat obliquis ex nodis hinc inde, plane inftar radicis majoris . 

 cujufdam arboris. In iis locis iflandiae, ubi magna copia eruitur, 

 terra ad duas ulnas eftbfla, nullae plane funt arbores, aut fuifle un- 

 quam, animadvert! poteft. Quo circa nefcio, an eorum probari 

 poflit opinio, qui exiftimant, hie olin fylvas fuifle, quae reMis 

 radicibus, incendio conflagraverint. Radicum vero truncos a fucco 

 fubterraneo vitriolato colorem nigrum contraxifle veroflmilius. 

 Muf. Worm. p. 169. 



Lind, lime-trees, great quantities of thefe are found in certain 

 places, both with large, clear, and fmall dark leaves. The pea- 

 sants with the bark make very elegant butter-bafkets, or other 

 veflels for the carriage of the butter; likewife lines for hulbandry, 

 and alfo for flfhing. 



Lon, acer major, the maple alfo grows here, but little ufe is 

 made of it. 



Piil, willows of feveral kinds are to be found in many places, 

 but made no account of, except by the goats, who feed with 

 pleafure on its juicey and bitter bark; though of one kind called 

 falina, the bark is ufed for tanning fkins; the broad-leaved kind, 

 the leaves whereof underneath are woolly, goes here by a very 

 long and ftrange nick-name, Traet fomfanden flaaede geden 

 under, i. e. the tree under which the devil Head the goats. What 

 traditional fable gave occaflon to this, I know not, but probably 

 it arofe from hence, that as the goats delight in ftripping thefe 

 trees, as has been faid, fome one has conceited, that the devil by 

 way of retaliation, under this tree ftrips or fleas the goats, in their 

 turn. But whilft I am writing this, I have received from an in- 

 genious hand a more probable conjecture on the caufes of this 

 name, that feveral fmall threads, or filaments like goats-hair, lie 

 betwixt the wood and the bark. He further informs me, that a 

 decoction of thefe fibrillar is of a Angular virtue in curing the 

 fcurvy. Whether this tree is to be found in other countries I 

 cannot fay *. 



Rofentrae, the rofe-bufh, bears here, as well as in other places, 

 red, white and yellow rofes, both double and Angle. 



> * Some attribute the properties of this tree to the fambucus aquatica before-men- 

 tioned, but how juftly, I cannot determine, for want of perfonal experience. 



Ronne, 



