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RETURN TO HVAMORE. 
towards Hvamore,. taking, however, a different 
route from that by which we had come in the 
morning. In our way, we stopped a few minutes 
at the house of a priest of the name of Joneson, 
where I was agreeably surprised at the sight of 
a jar of water filled with the charming flowers 
of Epilobium frigidum *, FI. Scand. a beautiful 
figure of which has been given by Mr. Salisbury 
in the Paradis us Londinensis under the name of 
Chamcenerium halimifolium. Our host informed 
us he had found them on the side of the Hvitaa, 
and I therefore hastened thither and gathered 
a number of fine specimens of this splendid 
plant, the most striking vegetable production of 
Iceland. I had previously seen it, though in a 
less forward and luxuriant state. During our 
stay here, some people who had been requested 
by the Stiftsamptman to procure me specimens 
of the minerals of the country, brought me a 
number of different kinds, among which were 
several large pieces of Obsidian and some fine 
Zeolites. Late in the evening, after a most in¬ 
teresting ride through a comparatively populous 
and fertile tract of country, we returned to our 
* This plant does not always, as Mr. Salisbury seems to 
think, grow in maritime situations. The spot where I met 
with these specimens was at some distance from the sea, and 
those which I found in the chasm, at the foot of Skoul-a-jiel 
could not be less than ten or twelve miles from the coast. 
