ALPINE FLORA AND FERNS OF NORWAY. 321 



HINTS TO BOTANISTS ON THE DOVEE 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 afibrd 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 



