the Genera Plantarum, and Flora Lapponica, andalso mentioned in his Critica Botanica, as ‘ ahumble, despised, and neglected Lapland plant,flowering at an early age ’ like the person whosename it bears.

The LimiEea borealis is not without its dueshare of reputation as a medicinal plant. ‘Aninfusion of the leaves, with milk, is esteemed aspecific among the Swedes, in rheumatic andsciatic disorders.’ The inhabitants of West Both-nia cure painful complaints in the feet of theirsheep with a cataplasm or fomentation of thisherb. The smoke of it, when burnt, is thought bythe Norwegians beneficial in the cure of thescarlet fever, and its decoction in the itch.

It is a native of dry, stony, mossy ancient, firwoods, in Sweden, Siberia, Russia, Switzerland ,and North America. Scotland also claims it asone of her offspring.

From its associations this plant has always beenregarded with more than common interest ; andthe more so from its rarity, which has arisenmerely from the proper method of cultivating itnot having been understood. This induced us topublish in the Auctarium, section 193, directionsby which it may be grown in luxuriance; thechief points of which are, to obtain good peat, andas the plant extends itself, to peg down and par-tially cover its creeping shoots. Although theflowers are small, a healthy patch of the plant, ina cool corner of.the garden, is quite a desideratum,and the perfume of the flowers in the evening, isnot one of its least important recommendations.

Don’s Syst. Bot. 3, 452. *