the flowers are even produced during the fnow. The leaves of
the tujjilago, however, never come out till about a fortnight after
the fnow is gone.
T h e Andromeda cterulea adorns the bogs of Lapland. I found
fome entirely white, and gathered ieveral fpecimens of them.
The willows 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 different. They are a ufeful production for the economy
o f nature, particularly in that country: they furnilh the birds
with good materials for building their nefls, by means o f the cottony
fubftance they afford : the infedts 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. T h e Laplanders make cords of the toots o f the willow,
which they ufe in their fiffieries.
The quicknefs of the vegetation in Lapland is a thing of which
we have no conception in other parts of Europe. T h e whole is
accomplifhed in the fpace 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 1 abflraCted a kind of rule for the latitude
in which I found myfelf. For inflance, 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
fee pines and birches. From Kautokeino as far as the mountains
you lofe fight o f the pines, and the birches alone remain. At
Alten you again fee a few pines; but from Alten to the North
Cape, you perceive nothing but birches, and theie become fcarcer
the nearer you approach the North Cape :
Rara, nec hsec felix in apertis eminet arvis
Arbos——