terea levit^r gustatus dulcedinis sensum linguae
imprimit, quique purgantem effectum
edit, si Fuci ingesta copia nimia fuerit, sale
turn fibras intestinales vellicante.” The
learned Etatsroed of Iceland has written a
full account of the three esculent Fuci of his
country, F. palmatus, F. digit atm, and
F. esculentus, which was printed at Copenhagen
last spring. Of this work he very
kindly presented me with a copy for myself,
and also one for Mr. Turner, with whose
Historia Fucorum (as far at least as was
then published) he was not unacquainted.
The number of quotations from various authors
in the Etatsroed’s little work was a
sufficient proof of his having paid great attention
to the subject on which he wrote,
and of his possessing botanical books, which
a stranger would little expect to meet with
m Iceland. I much regret the loss of these
two pamphlets, as they contained, not only
a complete account of the mode of preparing
the Fuci for food, but also a very accurate
representation of the three species, from
drawings (if I mistake not) made by the
Etatsroed himself.
Sunday, This morning, I visited the more
June 25. e]evated parts of the country about
Reikevig, and found them composed wholly
of broken, and generally small, pieces of
rock, for the most part perfectly barren;
though in places, here and there, were some
patches of vegetation, among which I met
with a few interesting plants. Vaccinium
uliginosum was abundant, and its charming
blossoms delighted me much, the more so as
I had never previously seen it in perfection.
Dryas octopetala, of which the inhabitants
gather the leaves and make a sort of tea of
them was every where extremely common,
but hardly yet in flower, and the same was
the case with Lychnis alpina. A remarkably
woolly-leaved Salix, which I took for lanata,
and two or three other species, of stunted
growth, were the only plants that elevated
themselves to the height of even five or six
inches from the ground. Saxif 'raga (tricus-
pidata? FI. Scandin.) grew plentifully among
the rocks; which also produced Splachnum
vasculosum and mnioides, though sparingly;
but I was most pleased with a fine new species
of Cornicularia, allied to C. bicoior, but
three or four times as large, and all over of a