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the snow. The pyrola I have not found, nor the cocli- 
learia, save in one spot, and then dwarfed. But we 
have the lychnis, the young sorrel, the andromeda, the 
draba, and the willow-bark; this last an excellent 
tonic, and, in common with all the Arctic vegetable 
astringents, I think, powerfully antiscorbutic.” 
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