The road from hence lay across a marsh called by the people the walls of Troy, a quarter of a mile in extent, destitute of large trees. The Sweet Gale (_Myrica Gale_), laden with catkins about its upper branches, was abundant every where, as well as the Dwarf Birch (_Betula nana_). These form a sort of low alley through which the road leads. This _Betula_ had also catkins upon it, which are sessile and erect, not pendulous as in the Common Birch, about half an inch long and as thick as a goose-quill, situated about the lower part of the branches. The female catkins are more slender than the male, erect, and sessile upon the upper branches. Their scales ovate and almost leafy, green, pointed, three-cleft, with three pair of purplish pistils. Here and there grew the Marsh Violet (_Viola palustris_), with its pale grey flowers, marked with five or seven black forked lines on the lower lip. In the forest on the other side of this marsh were many kinds of Club-moss (_Lycopodium clavatum_, _Selago_, _alpinum_, and _complanatum_). A quantity of large stones lay by the road side, which the governor of the province had caused to be dug up in order to mend the high-way. They looked like a mass of ruins, and were clothed with _Campanula serpyllifolia_ (the plant afterwards called _Linnæa borealis_), whose trailing shoots and verdant leaves were interwoven with those of the Ivy (_Hedera Helix_). On the right is the lake Hamränge Fjärden, which adds greatly to the beauty of the road. The morning of this day was bright, but the afternoon was diversified with sunshine and rain, like the preceding. The wind however changed from north to south. On the mountainous ridge at Hille, above described, I remarked on the ends of the Juniper-branches a kind of bud or excrescence, consisting of three leaves, longer than when in their natural state, and three or four times as broad, which cohered together except at their tips. They enveloped three smaller leaves, of a yellow hue, in the centre of which lodged either a maggot or a whitish chrysalis. (This produces the _Tipula Juniperi_. See _Fauna Suecica_ 438, and _Fl. Suec._ 360). I arrived at Hamränge Post-house during the night. The people here talked much of an extraordinary kind of tree, growing near the road, which many persons had visited, but none could find out what it was. Some said it was an apple tree which had been cursed by a beggar-woman, who one day having gathered an apple from it, and being on that account seized by the proprietor of the tree, declared that the tree should never bear fruit any more. _May 15._ Next morning I arose with the sun in order to examine this wonderful tree, which was pointed out to me from a distance. It proved nothing more than a common Elm. Hence however we learn that the Elm is not a common tree in this part of the country.