THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



NATURAL HISTORY, 



MAY, 1835. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Notes of a Natural History Tour in Norway.. By E in- 

 ward Forbes, Esq. [Continued from p. 67.] 



It was with regret we sailed away from Arandal, and left its 

 sunny isles and shady forests ; but our sorrow soon vanished 

 in the delights of the picturesque though short voyage to 

 Christiansand, where we landed to spend the night and next 

 day on shore in the town, which, being built on a level sandy 

 plain, is very regular, more so than any town in Norway. 

 The following day was spent in the neighbourhood, natu- 

 ralising, in company with M. Blytt, botanical lecturer to the 

 University of Christiania; who, to our great joy, was a fellow- 

 passenger, and bound to Stavanger on a botanical excursion. 

 We found Sedum anglicum in abundance, also TeesdahVz 

 nudicaulis, and the violet termed by some Continental botanists 

 Fiola lancifolia, approaching in its characters our V. lactea. 

 In a wood we obtained an A'juga, perhaps alpina, Convallaria 

 verticillata, Digitalis purpurea, and Pyrola media, the last an 

 addition to the flora of Christianstoft. The golden blossoms 

 of the A'rnica montana rejoiced us for the first time; and 

 Lobel/a Dortmanna grew with Lycopodium inundatum on the 

 margin of a lake; whilst, on the sea shore, occurred Scirpus 

 maritimus, Juncus bottnicus, and Glaux maritima. Great 

 numbers of Pontic cratae v gi were flying about, and coleop- 

 terous insects were very abundant. 



The structure of the country is various. Christiansand is 

 built, as its name implies, on a bed of sand ; the rocks around 

 are gneiss and syenite. In one place we came to a limekiln, 

 where they were burning a white granular limestone : it may 

 be the same with the transition bed at Christiania, though I 

 have never heard of such a formation occurring in this neigh- 



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