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CHAPTEE 



BOTANICAL EAMBLES ON THE DOVRE FJELD * 



BY the permission of the late Professor Blytt, whom 

 I saw a few weeks previous to his death, I am enabled 

 to lay before my readers a detailed list of the Flora of 

 the Dovre Fjeld. 



The Alpine plants of the north seem to have con- 

 centrated themselves in parts of this mountain range, 

 as will be more expressly alluded to in a few tours 

 which I have appended for the benefit of the collector. 

 A short list of the Ferns of Norway will also be found 

 in their proper place, many of which are very rare, and 

 some quite unknown in our country. 



Those stations where good quarters are to be had 

 are printed in italics. 



The plates referred to will be found in the ' Flora 

 Danica.' 



EANUXCULACE^;. 



THALICTRUM ALPIXUM, L. ; Fl. D. tab. 11. Common up to 

 3,400 feet above the sea ; rarely found beyond this. 



T. SIMPLEX, L. ; Fl. D. tab. 244. Common on the heights 

 about Tofte, by Bergsgaard, Eustgaard, Lie, Drivstuen, in Driv- 

 dalen ; rarely found above the birch-limit. 



" Drivdalen," remarks Professor Blytt, late Professor of Botany 

 at the Christiania University, " is one of the richest localities on 



* The following description of the Flora of the Dovre Fjeld has already 

 appeared in the pages of thu ' Field ' newspaper. 



