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The following are the counties from which specimens have 

 been reported : — 



Bute. 



Renfrewshire. 



Midlothian. 



Perthshire. 



Fifeshire. 



Peebleshire. 



Aberdeenshire. 



Ayrshire. 



Kirkcudbrightshire. 



Arctic Plants from the DovreQeld, Norway. 

 By Mrs. Peter Ewing. 



[Read 29th April, 1902.] 



The specimens before the meeting to-night are only a few out 

 of the many interesting plants gathered in different parts of the 

 Dovrefjeld last summer. Most of them are to be met with, and 

 indeed I may say that by far the greater number were actually 

 collected, at the Kongsvold, where the greater part of our time 

 during our sojourn in Norway was spent. The district, which 

 takes its name from the farm or posting station of the Kongsvold 

 — now a large hotel to all intents and purposes — lies in the 

 valley of the Driva, almost in the centre of the Dovrefjeld, and 

 is considered by experts one of the richest in Norway in respect 

 of the number of rare plants found within its limits. Indeed 

 Professor Axel Blytt, author of the most important Norwegian 

 flora, who has classified the various parts of the country cele- 

 brated for botanical interest, gives this region second place as a 

 botanical centre — tlie Lapmark of Lulea coming fii'st. But as 

 there is only a difference of four plants in the number of 

 approximately rare forms, it will be allowed that the Kongsvold 



