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wanting to make them the very animals them- 
Elves, but noife, and motion ? Who imagined 
thefe flowers grew in our countrey, and in fuch 
plenty in Oeland, than they are to be met with 
in every field ? 
Who would ever have thought of looking 
in our countrey for the following exotics. The 
winged pea, the great bur net, the perennial let- 
tuce, the dwarf carline thiftle , the middle flea- 
bane, the black hellebore , the Illyric crowfoot 
much lefs the riccia, and herb terrible , and 
efpccially the fcorpion few,. that moil beautiful 
fhrub, which in winter is carefully guarded 
againfl the froils in the ftoves of our botanifls ; 
yet all thefe have lately been obferved to grow 
in Oeland and Gothland. 
We ufed to purchafe at a great price from 
forreigners the following medicinal plants, ver- 
vain , moneywort , &c. which all are natives of 
Sweden, and yet ten years ago nobody knew 
this. 
What expences have we been at yearly to 
get the glafs-wort , of whofe allies and fait, 
glafs is made. The dyers weed and woad were 
purchafed yearly at a very high price ; plants 
that w T e have at laft found grow every where, 
about our provinces. 
Lapland 
