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155 Of the Laplanders Trees and Plants.
CHAP XXXI
Of the Laplanders Trees and Tlants.
I deScend from their Animals to their Trees and Plants, with which they
are well Stored, tho Jovius observes that they have no fruit Trees, as
Apple, Pear, 8tc. neither have they any Wild Trees which will not bear
the cold, as Oak, Beach, which Ol. Pet. takes notice of, but adds that
they have plenty-of Pine and Fir, Juniper and Birch-,Service tree,and
Willow, Alder and Dog -tree, the Afp and Ollar: but theSe Trees do not
grow every where, for the Mountains called the Fells, between Norway
and Lapland, bear no Trees at all ; Pet. Claud, thinks the reafon of that
to be the continual storm of wind that is on them, but perhaps a truer reafon
may be the extremity of cold. The ground that lies near the Mountains is
thick Set with Woods, with this distinction that the parts next them bears
nothing but Birch tree, remarkable for their thickneSs and height, and
pleaSant profped, Nature having contrived them So regularly that they
Seem afar off to be fome pleaSant Garden. The Soil more distant from thoSe
Hills, befides Birch-trees, hath Fir and Pitch , which Seems like Some new
kind of wood, compofed of theSe three Sorts.
Befides theSe , there are very few others found in Lapland. Shrubs,
efpecially Currans, or Ribes are very frequent, but they regard not thefe
becaufe perhaps the raft is unpleafant, efpecially of thofe which bear
Black-berries, which are more numerous than the others.The Junipers
grow-thick, being very tall and comely. This Country yields all manner of
Berries, the chief are thofe which the Swedes call Hiortron, fome Dew-berries,
or the Norway Berry , vhofe Species is the fame that grows on Brambles,
each Berry being divided as it were intograines of a pale yellow color,
beginning to be red as they ripen. TheSe commonly grow in marlhy places.
They creep on the ground , and are Sustained by little props , fo that they
ought not to be reckoned among Shrubs. The Berries are very wholfome,
and are a prefent remedy for the Scurvy. The Inhabitants delight to eat
them with their fleSh and fait meats, as I mentioned before. They have a
fort of black Berries, called by the Swedes, Hallon, acccording to Olaus
Pet■ alfo the thin leaved heath, that bears a Berry , which fome call ground
Ewe, the Swedes, Kraokeb*r, the leSfer black Berries called in Swedland
Lingon, andtheleSfer black Berries called Blaobfr, all which Olaus Pet.
takes notice of, Speaking of their manner of dreffing meat, particularly
of the Heath-berries: whence it appears that thefe Berries were as
plentiful! with them as the former. They have all forts oS other Berries, tho
the Natives do not So much value them. This Country alfords very uiefull
Herbs, Such as are Angelica, which the Inhabitant value So much that they
call it the Lapland herb, or Samigraes: they are much pleaSed with it in"
their meat: it grows with a Short stalk, but thick. In the Same place is found
Sorrel, which they ufe too in their food. Some particular herbs they have
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