The Laplanders of this neighbourhood do not often take the diversion of shooting. They are seldom masters of a fowling-piece; and when not occupied in following or attending the reindeer, they remain in idleness for whole days together, feeding on nothing but milk, and the dishes prepared from it. I satisfied myself here that the crackling noise made by the reindeer does not originate in the hoof, nor in the lowermost joint of the foot. The women of this neighbourhood smoke tobacco as well as the men. Every body learns to smoke about the age of twelve or fifteen. Whenever I gave my host about an ell of twisted tobacco, I was sure to obtain in return a cheese of double its value. The large-flowered _Cerastium_ (_C. alpinum_) was here every where in abundance, and the prickly _Lycopodium_. (_L. Selaginoides?_). The neighbouring mountain abounded with a very black fissile aluminous stone. The surface of the snow appeared to have a vibratory motion, like water slightly agitated, or like a large white sail swelled by the wind. All the inhabitants of this neighbourhood wore garments made of reindeer skins. _July 8._ The plants I found this day were the following. 40. _Michelia._ (_Azalea lapponica._) Its calyx is inconspicuous, green, in five obtuse segments. Petal one, erect, gradually dilated upwards, divided almost down to the base into five ovate segments, purple, deciduous. Stamens five, proceeding from the receptacle, erect, shorter than the petal, purplish, thread-shaped, with roundish anthers. Pistil one, thread-shaped, inclining to one side, longer than the petal, with a globose embryo, and thick stigma. Pericarp membranous, globose, of five cells and five compressed valves, the cells fixed to the column, as in _Ledum_, bursting at the top. Leaves thick, ovate, evergreen, clustered at the tops of the branches, as in _Ledum_. Flowers about three, at the extremity of each branch, each on a simple uncoloured stalk. Is this the same genus with _Dillenia_ (_Azalea procumbens_, nº. 3.)? I think not. In that the calyx and flower-stalks are coloured; two flowers proceed from each bud; the petal is firm, and cut but half way down; the calyx is half as long as the petal; the pistil is erect, shorter than the petal; the stamens are directed inwards, and not attached to the receptacle. (Notwithstanding these reasons, Linnæus united the two plants together in his _Flora Lapponica_, as one genus, under the name of _Azalea_, quoting two synonyms of Tournefort and Bauhin for this nº. 40, which belong to _Rhododendrum ferrugineum_, his own plant being entirely new, if not a pentandrous variety of that _Rhododendrum_, which is much to be suspected. The above description, of the fruit especially, is sufficient to show it cannot belong to the same genus with _Azalea procumbens_, though perhaps it may accord better with the American _Azaleæ_.) [Illustration]