34 « 
TRAVELS 
perate enjoyment of the fun’s rays, which can only reach it by in- 
finuating themfelves between the branches of the bufhes that 
overfhadow it. Dr. Smith, Pref. L. S. has given us a coloured 
figure of it extremely accurate and lively, which the reader may 
fee and admire in his cohesion of rare plants. This is one of the 
rareft as well as moft beautiful productions of the North ; it is in¬ 
digenous in the parifh of Kemi. Hitherto it has been difeovered 
no where elfe, except, as I have been informed, in North Ame¬ 
rica. The other plants in flower which we obferved in this neigh¬ 
bourhood, are the following: 
Daphne mezereum 
Vaccinium myrtillus 
Lychnis dioica 
Viola paluftris 
Viola canina 
Viola tricolor 
Ranunculus acris 
Trollius Europseus 
Caltha paluftris 
Arbutus uva urfl 
Pinus abies 
Insects. 
Cimex lacuftris Hunerobius lutorius 
Tipula juniperina 
As Mr. Caftrein, from his love to botany, and a hope of difeo- 
vering new plants in the deferts of Lapland, had refolved to attach 
himfelf to our expedition, we accordingly fet out altogether from 
Kemi, and arrived at Tornea the fame day. We changed horfes 
only once, which was at Leivaniemi, and we met with nothing 
worth mentioning on the whole road to Tornea, except the ra¬ 
vages which the inundations of the rivers had made this year, by 
throwing 
