[37] _Tremella juniperina_ of Linnæus, _T. Sabinæ_ of Dickson: see _English Botany, v. 10, t. 710_, which I am persuaded is merely an exudation from the shrub that bears it.
Towards evening I reached Stocknasmark and Iamtboht, where grew the pretty little _Cameraria_ of Ruppius and Dillenius (_Montia fontana_), a plant that had never fallen in my way before. In Källheden it was peculiarly abundant, and afterwards I found it common throughout Westbothnia. It is one of the smallest of plants.
The Laplanders in this neighbourhood had set traps to catch squirrels. Each consists of a piece of wood cloven half way down, and baited with a piece of dried fungus with which the animal is enticed. The fungus used for this purpose is an Agaric with a bulbous stalk and crimson cap (_A. integer [beta]. Sp. Pl._).
In the huts I observed suspended over the tables two tails of the great female Wood Grous (_Tetrao Urogallus_), spread so as to make a kind of circular fan, which had a handsome appearance.
The Little Cotton-Grass (_Eriophorum alpinum_) and the _Mesomora_ (_Cornus suecica_) grow abundantly in this neighbourhood. About the water were several _Ephemeræ_. I also caught a little insect of the beetle (or coleopterous) kind, the shells of which were red, the thorax blue with a red margin, the whole shining with a tinge of gold. In Lapland are scarcely any fleas, no bugs, though plenty of lice, nor any frogs nor serpents.
Very early in the morning I set out again on my journey, and in my way examined the Palmated Orchis with a green or pale flower, differing from all others in the shape of its nectary, which is like a bag and not a spur. Hence I have referred it to _Satyrium_ (_S. viride_). It connects that genus with the real _Orchides_ with palmate bulbs[38].
[38] The more correct characters, founded by Haller and Swartz on the anthers, reduce this plant very successfully to the genus _Orchis_, with _Satyrium hircinum_ likewise.
I remarked that all the women hereabouts feed their infants by means of a horn, nor do they take the trouble of boiling the milk which they thus administer, so that no wonder the children have worms. I could not help being astonished that these peasants did not suckle their children.