The river produces abundance of Flote-grass, which at this time bore its spikes or heads of flowers. I had long been acquainted with the plant, it being very abundant in this country as well as in Smoland, and had wondered what species it could be; especially as I never heard of any botanist who had met with the fructification. It is a _Sparganium_, whose leaves are very long, reaching a fathom or two, according to the depth of the water, and floating on its surface. They are convex at their back, except in the lower part, which is flat on both sides. (This plant named _Flotagræs_, or Flote-grass, in Linnæus's native country of Smoland, is the _Sparganium_ _n._ 345* of _Fl. Lapp._, in the second edition of which work I have called it _S. natans_, on his own authority in the _Flora Suecica_ and _Species Plantarum_; but in _English Botany,_ _v._ 4. 273, and _Fl. Brit._ 962, this error is corrected, so far at least as concerns the original Lapland specimen, which is unquestionably _S. simplex_, _Engl. Bot._ _v._ 11. _t._ 745, a species he did not, in his works, distinguish from our common _S. ramosum_, _t._ 744. I am now persuaded he confounded this _simplex_ with the _natans_ in his Lapland tour, as well as in his herbarium, where the original specimens of the two are pinned together.) _August._ 2 They dry their corn upon drying sheds as is practised in Smoland. The cross piece is turned towards the south, but the method here differs from that of the Smolanders in one respect. The latter place one sheaf on the top of another, but the inhabitants of Westbothnia lay the sheaves cross-wise, in an alternate order, each thinking their own method the best for procuring the most complete ventilation. In this country fifteen sheaves are lodged under each shed, without supporters; but in Smoland twelve only, ten of which are in the main pile and two at the sides. The Smolanders therefore are able to reach high enough to place their uppermost sheaves by hand, but the inhabitants of Westbothnia find it necessary to be provided with what they term a _Skyllkrok_, or Rick-hook, consisting of a round pole, with a transverse projecting piece of wood, (like a direction-post in England, as appears by the sketch in the manuscript,) by means of which each sheaf is lifted up. On a heath very near the river Sangis I noticed some earth of a red colour. The dry part of the forest which had been burnt down, produced Reindeer-moss (_Lichen rangiferinus_) in such abundance, that the whole face of the ground was covered with it. The evening was fine when I reached Zangis (or Sangis), where I took leave of my native tongue. _August 3._