188 THE FOREST LANDS OF FINLAND. 



Of brambles there are the raspberry (Rubus idceus L.) ; 

 the dewberry (7?. caesius L.) ; the suberect blackberry 

 (.ff. sitberectus Anders.) 



The guelder rose (Viburnum opulus L.) is found to 

 between 65 and 66. 



The fly honey suckle (Lonicera xylosteum L.) grows to 

 beyond 64 ; the blue-berried honey suckle (L. coerulea L.) 

 grows only in the extreme north-west parts of the country. 



Transverse sections of the wood of most of these species 

 of trees, shrubs, and bushes, all of them indigenous in 

 Finland, were exhibited at Moscow. 



SECTION C. FORESTS. 



Dr A. Blomqvist, Director of the School of Forestry, 

 to \vhom I am indebted for these details, states further : 

 'The forests of Finland are formed of the Scottish fir, 

 Norway fir, of the pubescent birch, the white birch, and 

 of the white alder, either exclusively or reversed; but 

 the broad-leaved trees are almost always intermixed 

 with Scottish fir and Norway pine. These, on the 

 contrary, form each by itself forests of very considerable 

 extent. The forests of Scottish fir occupy the greater 

 extent. Next to these are the forests of Norway pine. 

 The birches and white alder cover also considerable 

 stretches of country. The common alder and the aspen 

 are met with also in smaller woods, but none of these 

 species constitute what can properly be called forests. 

 The aspen, and likewise the mountain ash, the bird cherry, 

 and several species of willow grow dispersed in the forest, 

 and are common throughout the whole country. The 

 small-leaved willow, the Norway maple, the ash, and the 

 oak, more rarely than the species previously mentioned, 

 are to be found dispersed over the areas of their growth.' 



By Professor Blomqvist I was informed that there is a 

 good description of the forests in Finland in the Jahrbuch 

 der Konigl sacks Akademie fiir Forst und Landwirthe zu 

 Tharand. Dreizenter Band (neue Folge Sechster Band.) 



