From the tail fin to the anal one, one inch, two lines.
Base of the latter eight lines; its length eleven.
From the anal to the ventral fins one inch, five lines.
Base of the latter eight lines; their length eleven.
From the ventral to the pectoral fin one inch, eight lines.
Base of the latter four lines, length eleven.
Greatest diameter of the body one inch, five lines.
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.
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].