The common method of the Laplanders for joining broken earthen-ware, is to tie the fragments together with a thread, and boil the whole in fresh milk, by which they are cemented to each other.
The grass used for lining shoes is a _Carex pseudo-cyperus_, with many slender pendulous spikes. (_Carex sylvatica_, _Fl. Brit._)
An ointment for burns is made of fresh cream boiled to a thick consistence, with which the sore is anointed. It removes the pain, and admirably promotes the healing of the ulcer.
For chilblains, the oil or fat which exudes from toasted reindeer cheese, rubbed upon the part affected, is a sovereign cure. Some persons use dog's fat for the same purpose. The latter is also used for pains in the back, being rubbed in before a fire.
The Laplanders make use of no razor, but cut their beards with scissars. They never cut the hair of the head, and only occasionally employ a comb or any similar instrument. They have no laundress or washerwoman.
The drug called castor is one of their great remedies for every disease, and the gall of the bear is another.
When a wedding is to be celebrated, the lover takes all his relations along with him, each carrying meat and brandy. Being arrived at--(this sentence is left unfinished in the manuscript.)
I continued my journey to Hyttan, and in my way passed a marshy place, such as the Laplanders call _murki_. Close to the borders of it grew the least _Thalictrum_ (_T. alpinum_), with four pale petals, and twelve stamens with long anthers, their filaments purple. In another part grew an _Androsace_ with two drooping flowers. It had five stamens; one capitate pistil; an ovate fruit of one cell; a five-cleft calyx, and a swelling (corolla of one) petal. It is therefore not a good _Androsace_. (This was unquestionably _Primula integrifolia_, see _Fl. Lapp. ed. 2. 52_, which Linnæus, in that work, seems to have confounded with _P. farinosa_. Speaking of the latter he says, "This _Primula_, the splendid crimson of whose flowers attracts the eyes of all who traverse the fields of Scania and the meadows of Upland in the early spring, did not occur during my whole journey till after I had ascended the Lapland Alps, where it grew very sparingly, furnished with only two or three flowers, and those of a very pale hue, so that in the mountains of Lapland it deserves neither the name of Cæsar nor of Regulus[56]. The stem of the plant, however, in these regions was a span or more in height, which is hardly the case in any other part of Sweden." _Fl. Lapp. ed. 2. 51._ Hence it appears that the real _P. farinosa_ ought to be struck out of the Lapland Flora, provided no botanist has found it there since Linnæus made the above remarks.)