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262 GENERAL REMARKS
the flowers are even produced during the fnow. The leaves of
the fuffilago, however, never come out till about a fortnight after
the {now is gone.
The Andromeda ce@rulea adorns the bogs of Lapland. I found
fome entirely white, and gathered feveral fpecimens of them.
The w//ows are numerous in Lapland, but it is rather difficult
to know them, as in many the time of the flower and that of the
leaves is Cifferent. They are a ufeful production for the economy
of nature, particularly in that country: they furnifh the birds
with good materials for building their nefts, by means of the cot-
tony fubftance they afford: the infects prefer them to other trees,
and by their long and winding roots, they keep the banks of
brooks and rivers together, which would otherwife crumble to
pieces. The Laplanders make cords of the roots of the willow,
which they ufe in their fifheries.
The quicknefs of the vegetation in Lapland 1s a thing of which
we have no conception in other parts of Europe. The whole is
accomplifhed in the {pace of two months; and to give the reader
a more accurate idea of it, I will mention as an example, that a
tobacco plant at Enontekis generally increafes more than an inch
in. circumference during the interval of twenty-four hours.
I remarked in my travels what trees extended fartheft to the
north, and from this I abftracted a kind of rule for the latitude
in which I found myfelf. For inftance, from Tornea as far as
Ketkemando, you meet with firs, pines, and birches, promifcu-
oufly: but beyond Ketkemando the firs difappear, and you only
fee
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