The other fish was a smaller _Cyprinus_, of a yellowish silvery hue, called at Pithoea _Wimba_. (_C. Wimba._ _Syst. Nat. ed. 12. v. 1. 531_). I could not perceive it to differ in any character from the preceding, except that it had sixty dots on each side, so that though a smaller fish it had more numerous dots and scales. The colour of the back was paler, and less black; the sides of a pale silvery hue. Ventral fins reddish at the outer and anterior edges, as is the lower edge of the tail. Both these fishes differ from the Roach (_Cyprinus Rutilus_) in the colours of their eyes and fins, as well as in being thinner at the back. _June 21._ I took my leave of the old town of Pithoea, and arrived at the more modern one of Lulea. All along by the road side I remarked the curious manner in which the Fir blossoms. Its branches produce a fresh shoot every year from their extremity; by observing the series of which shoots the age of the tree can be accurately computed. They retain their original leaves, which are needle-shaped, for three years; but when these fall the same branch never acquires any more. The male flowers, each of which is a _corymbus_ of stamens, grow from the side of the present year's shoot, near its base; but the female ones proceed from the extreme point, and are round and red. Both kinds of flowers are however but seldom found on the same shoot. In the Money-wort (_Linnæa borealis_), though its flower is, not without reason, reckoned by every body of the regular kind, its stamens indicate the contrary. They are four as in labiate flowers, two small, and two longer ones near the other side. Betwixt these the pistil is situated, being bent towards one side as in labiate plants. The upper lip therefore is to be understood as consisting of two lobes, the lower of three, though all the lobes are alike[50]. [50] In this instance the Linnæan system led to a true knowledge of the natural affinity of the plant, which one founded on the corolla would scarcely have done. The bogs were now white with the tufts of both kinds of Cotton-grass, the upright and the pendulous (_Eriophorum vaginatum_ and _polystachion_). The marshes were clothed with the white blossoms of _Ledum_ (_palustre_). The Dwarf Bramble (_Rubus arcticus_) became gradually less abundant. The forests also were white with the _Trientalis_ and _Mesomora_ (_Cornus suecica_), which began to fade, and the Bilberry (_Vaccinium Myrtillus_) was taking their place, along with the _Melampyrum_ (_sylvaticum_) and _Geranium_ (_sylvaticum_). The meadows were perfectly yellow with the upright _Ranunculus_ (_acris_), and some of the cornfields were no less so with _Brassica campestris_; but where the _Behen_ (_Silene inflata, Fl. Brit._) was beginning to shoot forth, the former withered away. The rivulets were white with _Menyanthes_ (_trifoliata_). The Cotton-grass and Willows now began to scatter their winged seeds. DISTRICT OF LULEA.