reindeer I took out the maggots which trouble them so much. I observed here in plenty the large fly with a yellow neck, and yellow segments of the body, (Oestrus Tarandi,) which probably is the same insect (in a perfect state), as I judge by the length of the legs.
My hosts gave me missen to eat; that is, whey, after the curd is separated from it, coagulated by boiling, which renders it very firm. Its flavour was good, but the washing of the spoon took away my appetite, as the master of the house wiped it dry with his fingers, whilst his wife cleaned the bowl, in which milk had been, in a similar manner, licking her finger after every stroke.
I also tasted some jumo, which they mixed with reindeer's milk, but it did not please me.
This day I gathered the following plants. (The numbers are continued from p. [291].)
31. Saxifraga with a tuberous root, a
simple stem flowering at the summit, and bulbs in the bosoms of the leaves. (S. cernua.) This has much resemblance to the common Saxifrage, (S. granulata.) but bears only one flower at the top of the stem, which is pendulous before it opens. The petals and stamens are white. In the bosom of each leaf are about ten naked anther-like little heads (or buds), which grow out into embryos of future plants. It inhabits watery places.
32. A very small Juncus, with a spatha of two leaves, enclosing two seeds; (rather capsules, but Linnæus wrote seeds, because it appears by the manuscript that he took the plant at first for a Carex.) This is one of the smallest of grasses, bearing a solitary spike, one floret of which has an upright glume, (or leaf of the spatha,) the other a reflexed one. The petals are whitish. Pistil snow-white. Stamens six. (This can be no other than Juncus biglumis, see Engl. Bot. t. 898, omitted in Linnæus's own edition
of Fl. Lapp. and supposed to have been first found by the celebrated Dr. Montin in 1749.)
33. Carex with several black loose pendulous spikes, one of which is male, two or three female. (C. saxatilis.)
34. Draba with a yellow flower. (D. alpina.) Pod like the rye-flower. (D. verna, see p. [5].)