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340 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 collection 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 difcovered
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 Ranunculus acris
Vaccinium myrtillus Trollius Europzeus
- Lychnis dioica Caltha paluftris
Viola paluftris Arbutus uva urfi
Viola canina Pinus abies
Viola tricolor
INSECTS.
Cimex lacuftris Hunerobius lutorius
Tipula juniperina
As Mr. Caftrein, from his love to botany, and a hope of difco-
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
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