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the mountains. Indeed, when such things as Saxifraga 

 eernua, Veronica sajxitilis, and Cystoptcris montana are found 

 growing by the roadside, as they do in this glen, one does 

 not feel very far from the top of Ben Lawers. We 

 accordingly spent the first day or two in the neighbour- 

 hood of the inn ; and, without any hill climbing, we found, 

 in addition to plants already named — Primula Scotica 

 (farinosa ?), Salix reticulata and S. kerhacca, Astragalus 

 al'pinus and A. oroboides, Thalictrum alpimmi, Dry as 

 octopetala, Filago montana, Erigeron alpinus and E. 

 elongatus, Silenc acaulis, Lychnis alpina (called in Norway 

 Viscaria alpina), Poa alpina and P. ccesia, Sedum Hhodiola 

 and S. annuum, Lycopodinm sdaginoides, Konigia Islandica 

 (a small and rare plant of the order Polygonacete, growing 

 in the stream behind the hotel), Saxifraga ccespitosa and 

 S. adscendens (this last is the name as given to us, but I 

 do not find it in the " Norsk Flora," of Hoffstad), Gcntiana 

 nivalis and G. tenclla, Polemoniuin coiruleum, Ranuncidiis 

 hyperhorcus, Anemone ptdsatilla, Gnaphcdium Norvegicuni 

 (a British plant), Carex capillaris, Kobresia caricina and 

 K. scirpina, Asplenium viride, Cystopteris montana. This, 

 with us, rare fern was growing plentifully in the birch 

 woods near the hotel, not on rocks, where we were looking 

 for it, but in the grass under out feet, and we gathered our 

 first specimens under a heavy fire of mosquitoes. 



After this we took to the hill called Knutsho, with its 

 three tops, which stands behind the hotel, and is about five 

 thousand feet above the sea — a climb of only two thousand 

 feet. Unlike the mountains in many other parts of the 

 country, there are neither trees nor rocky precipices to 

 interfere with the vegetation all over the hill, which thus 

 presents no difficulty to the climber, and rewards the 

 botanist at every step. After going through the brushwood 

 at the beginning of the ascent, a fine view is obtained, in 

 the opposite direction, of Snaehatta ("the snow hat"), eight 

 thousand feet, the highest mountain in this district ; the 

 ascent of which was made by a party of ladies and gentle- 

 men staying at Kongsvold during our visit. Then some 

 new flowers began to appear — Violet hijiora, Pedicitlaris 

 QMeri and P. Laiyponica, Pammcuhis nivcdis, R. gleicialis, 

 P. pygmceus, Gyrnnadcnia cdhida, Petasites frigida, Alsine 



