was hot less plentiful here than in very
many other parts of the country; but,
although certainly employed as an esculent
plant, both fresh, and after having been kept
for some time buried in dry earthy and eaten
with fish or butter, yet it is by no means so
universally adopted, as is the case among
the natives of Lapland *. This whole day
was fine and warm, except that towards
* This plant is riot only an article of luxury among
the Laplanders, but is also used by them as a medicine
to cure the spasms, arising from cholic, on both which
subjects Linnaeus expresses himself so beautifully, in his
own peculiar language, in the Flora Lapponica, that I
make no apology for the length of the following
extracts:—r< Morbo laborant saepius Lappones sylvatici
vehementissimo, Ullem vel Hotme dicto, qui species
Colic® est, et ad Colicam spasmodicam Scheuchzeri
proxime accedit; corripiuntur enim interanea circa
regionem umbilicalem spasmis dirissimis, qui exten-
duntur ad pubem usque, paroxysmis parturientium sane
vehementioribus, ita ut miser Lappo, vermis instar,
repat per terram et urinam saepe sanguinolentam
reddat, licet calculi nulla omnino ..sit suspicio apud
hanc gentem a calculo et podraga privilegiis naturae
defensam; post aliquot horarum, quandoque diei, spa-
tium, resolvitur, ptyalismo ingenti per quadrantem
horae durante. Dicunt ipsi, quod hie morbus in
Alpibus eos non adgrediatur, sed tantummodo dum in
sylvis per aestatem degunt, hausta scilicet ibidem aqua
the evening a thick misty rain came on.
At nine in the morning, the thermometer
was.at 60°.
semiputrida, vi radiorum solarium calefacta, vel forte
vermiculis scatente. In hoc morbo variis utuntur
medicamentis, et omnibus quidem fortissimis, ut vehe-
mentem morbum aeque vehementi oppugnent alexiterio,
quale est radix Angelicae, cineres aut oleum Tabaci,
Castoreum liquidum, &c.—Caules Angelicae hujus sunt
Lapponum deliciae et fructus aestivi, quibus benigna
natura eos donavit, dura nimis et immisericordi exis-
tente Pomona, quae Lapponum terram nunquani intra-
vit. Caulis hie, antequam umbella absolute explicata
est (nara circa florescentiam lignosus evadit), abscin-
ditur prope terram, folia aveiluntur et cortex ad basin
caulis cultro dentibus vel unguibus solvitur, detra-
hiturque a basi ad apicem, cannabis instar, remanente
interiori caulis parte nuda nivea concava et pul pòsa,
quse instar Rapee vel Pomi cruda editur et quidem
summo cum adpetitu, deficiente gratiori in hisce oris
vegetabili. Cum pueri vel puellae mense Julio cum
rangiferis suis per Alpes errantes in pascuis illosque
circa vespertinum vel matutinum tempus ad casam, ut
mulgantur, reduces comitantur, detruncatis caulibus
totum sinum impletum reportant, quos in familia sua
distribuunt, et summa aviditate devorant. Gratus hie
Lapponibus cibus nec nobis displicebat, leviter enim
amarus et simul aromaticus est, immo et gustui et
ventriculo arridebat, adsumptis scilicet tamdiu diluenti-
bus ac emollientibus, cibo non salito, carnibus et
piscibus sale nullo maceratis, lacte pingui rangiferino,
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