306 Natural History Tour in Norway. 



many minute curiosities in the shell way from it. Several 

 species hitherto only found in Britain have rewarded my 

 search already. Brochus glaber of Brown's Illustrations (the 

 Dentalium glabrum of Montagu) is rather frequent ; Rotalia 

 Beccari« and inflata?, Lobatula vulgaris and concamerata ?, 

 are plentiful ; a single specimen of an Orthocera, and two 

 undescribed species of Lagenula, have also occurred. 



The steam-packet in which we had come remained a week 

 at Bergen, and one day made a trip to Lysfiord, about 

 twenty miles distant, for the amusement of the inhabitants. 

 We joined the party, and were well rewarded by the sight 

 of some very beautiful scenery at Lys; where we found 

 Convallaria vertieillata (Polygonatum verticillatum Desf.) in 

 great abundance, along with Gymnadenia conopsea and 

 Habenaria albida. The tide retires a considerable way at 

 ebb in this district ; and on the muddy shore, at low water, I 

 found Venus aurea, and pullastra, Cytherea exoleta, Mya 

 arenaria, Anatina compressa, .Buccinum reticulata m, and 

 Cingula rupestris (nova species mihi), all alive. Near this 

 place the gneiss rocks appeared to be composed of embedded 

 balls, resembling that globular structure which is often seen 

 in basaltic and other trap rocks. The country around Bergen 

 is wholly composed of gneiss. 



On the morning of Monday July 3. we left Bergen for Oes, 

 a small village on the Hardargerfiord, about twenty miles 

 distant. It was our first decided tramp under the knapsack 

 in Norway ; and what with our bags, and hammers, and bo- 

 tanical boxes, and books, we were pretty well loaded, not 

 forgetting boards enclosing the paper to dry our plants in. 

 We passed through much fine lake scenery, and as we ad- 

 vanced the country became better wooded. Digitalis purpurea, 

 Xysimachia Nummularia, and Zanum catharticum, were fre- 

 quent ; as also the *Senecio Jacobae^z, in Norway rare and 

 much prized by the botanist. .A7ymphae N a alba decorated the 

 margins of the lakes. Near Oes, mica slate appeared, en- 

 closing beds of chlorite slate. We had expected to get 

 something to eat at the village, but were disappointed, though 

 very hungry : indeed, it is very difficult to buy any thing 

 in the way of eatables at the villages in this part of Norway. 

 We were rowed to Sandvig, about ten miles distant, by a man 

 and two women, amid incessant rain ; though the weather was 

 so calm, and the water so clear, that we could see the shell- 

 fish on their native beds, and the urchins sticking to the rocks 

 at a very considerable depth. The scenery of the fiord was 

 very beautiful. At Sandvig we put up at the wooden hut of 

 an old peasant, and made a hearty meal on cold fish, oat 



