ALPINE FLORA AND FERNS OF NORWAY. “321 
HINTS TO BOTANISTS ON THE DOVRE FJELD. 
Having now given a complete list of the phanero- 
gamous plants of the Dovre Fjeld and of the ferns in 
Norway, I shall proceed to sketch out a few trips on 
the above mountain range which the gatherer of 
botanical specimens had best undertake, and which 
will be the most likely to afford him the richest returns. 
I need scarcely remind my readers that fishing and 
shooting may be very successfully combined with 
botanizing—not simultaneously perhaps, though even 
when out on the fjelds, or by the river side, rod in 
hand, many a specimen may be gathered which might 
otherwise have escaped notice. 
Reindeer-hunting, as stated above, may be had in 
many parts, while at nearly every station on the Fjeld 
very fair grouse-shooting may be had. 
Up to the year 1822 the Dovre Fjeld remained a 
terra incognita to the botanist. In that year, however, 
it was visited by Hisinger and Prof. Wahlberg, who 
published a very complete and detailed list of the 
mosses and lichens, the flora and ferns, many of which 
had previously not been known to exist in this part of 
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