Viviparous Bistort (_Polygonum viviparum_) grew hereabouts two spans in height. The _Trientalis_ in moist situations had obtuse petals (see _Fl. Lapp. n. 139, ε_). The Water _Epilobium_ in this place had very broad leaves. (_E. palustre β. Sp. Pl. 495._ _Fl. Lapp. n. 148._) _Geranium_ (_sylvaticum_) had sometimes a white flower with purple veins, and blue anthers; sometimes the petals, as well as anthers, were white. THE LAPLAND ALPS. _July 6._ In the afternoon I took leave of Hyttan, and, at the distance of a mile from thence, arrived at the mountain of _Wallavari_ (or _Hwallawari_), a quarter of a mile in height. When I reached this mountain, I seemed entering on a new world; and when I had ascended it, I scarcely knew whether I was in Asia or Africa, the soil, situation, and every one of the plants, being equally strange to me. Indeed I was now, for the first time, upon the Alps! Snowy mountains encompassed me on every side. I walked in snow, as if it had been the severest winter. All the rare plants that I had previously met with, and which had from time to time afforded me so much pleasure, were here as in miniature, and new ones in such profusion, that I was overcome with astonishment, thinking I had now found more than I should know what to do with. 1. _Alchemilla_ with fingered leaves, silky underneath, but without flowers. (_A. alpina._) 2. _Jussiea_[58], with ternate leaves, abrupt and three-toothed at their extremities. (_Sibbaldia procumbens._) The calyx is of one leaf, very large, in ten segments, the five alternate ones of which are smallest, as in the strawberry tribe. Petals five, ovate, yellow, shorter than the calyx, and inserted betwixt its segments. The five stamens also proceed from the calyx. Pistils from five to ten, capitate at their summits, affixed laterally to the middle of the seeds, as in _Alchemilla_. (See the remarks of Linnæus, respecting the natural order of this plant, in _Fl. Lapp. n. 111_). [58] In this and many following instances, the original names in the manuscript are here retained, as a matter of curiosity to the learned botanist, who will be interested in seeing to whom Linnæus extemporaneously dedicated his new genera as they occurred, and who will at the same time admire his sagacity, in determining them, at first sight, so correctly, that not one has subsequently been set aside by any of his severest critics. 3. _Dillenia._ Stem woody. Flower purple. (_Azalea procumbens._) Calyx coloured, small, five-cleft, acute, purple, permanent. Petal one, erect, bell-shaped, five-cleft half way down, acute, purple. Stamens five, shorter than the petal. Pistil one, seated on the embryo, the length of the calyx. Stigma capitate. Seeds numerous, roundish. Pericarp globose, of five cells and five valves. Leaves ovate, evergreen, opposite, resembling those of the Cranberry. (_Vaccinium Oxycoccus._)