NEAR REIKEVIG. 
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I was frequently precipitated upon the sharp 
edges of the rock. The worst of all was, that I 
could not Well have chosen a more barren spot 
for plants, in so long a ramble; though I met 
with one species that delighted me much, and 
made me for a time forget the fatigue: this was 
Andromeda hypnoides which I found just in 
flower, on the north side of a huge mass of lava, 
and only there. Rhodiola rosea was tolerably 
plentiful on the Hraun, but scarcely in flower. 
I also met with Lycopodium annoiinum , and 
Conostomum bore ale. In boggy grounds, before 
I arrived at the Hraun , I found Orchis hyper - 
borea , the scent of which is very pleasant, and 
Eriophorum alpinum . On my return, I re¬ 
marked, on the opposite side of a large lake, a 
small conical hill, of a red color, looking almost 
as if it were then in a state of fusion. It ap¬ 
peared to me, that, to arrive at this, I had only 
to go round the east end of the lake, instead of 
* Besides the beauty of the color of the flowers of this 
plant, which particularly attracted the attention of Linnaeus, 
during the course of his travels in Lapland, and induced 
him to say, that, “ florens mirum in modum jucundissimo 
“ florum suorum colore spectatorem allicit,” it struck me no 
less forcibly by the singular elegance of its form and gene¬ 
ral appearance. The delicate tint of the flowers was here 
finely contrasted with the uniform blackness of the lava. Its 
barren shoots, as As observed by Linnaeus, exactly resemble 
those of a moss, or of a small Lycopodium . 
