ALPINE FLORA AND FERNS OF NORWAY. ooo 
hereabouts, but is comparatively rare along the road 
between Fogstuen and Jerkin. Carex capitata, Epilo- 
bum origanifolium, E. nutans, Conostomum, Cincli- 
dium, with other marsh mosses, grow here. 
‘From Jerkin, where there are excellent quarters, and 
where good fishing and shooting may also be had, an 
excursion must be made on the neighbouring Gede- 
ryggen. Amongst others will here be found, of mosses, 
Lecidea Wahlenbergui, Eremodon splachnoides, Didy- 
mon pilifer, Dicranum Sphagni, Catoscopium nigri- 
tum, &e.; Draba alpina, lapponica, and muricella 
(the two last growing together close to the uppermost 
stone-beacon on the ridge), Pinguicula villosa (in 
the marshy ground at the foot of the Fjeld), Salix 
Arbuscula (plentiful on the swamp by the road im- 
mediately below the Gaard), S. polaris (in small 
quantities on a single point of the Fjeld, near the snow- 
patches), Cares capitata (in the bog below the Gaard), 
C. fuliginosa (on the slopes of Gederyggen, above the 
willow-limit), C. parallela, and C. rupestris, in the 
same places and at the same altitude. 
‘It is scarcely worth the trouble to continue to explore 
west or south of Gederyggen. I have been over the 
whole terrain, and found the vegetation to be poor in 
the extreme. With the exception of a couple of 
eryptogami, Lecidea morio, Grimivia Donniana, and 
Saxifraga stellaris 8 comosa, 1 have not found a 
