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hereabouts, but is comparatively rare along the road 

 between Fogstuen and Jerkin. Carex capitata, Epilo- 

 l)ium origanifolium, E. nutans, Conostomum, Cindi- 

 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 WaliUribergii, Eremodon splachnoides, Didy- 

 mon pilifer, Dieranum Spliagni, Catoscopium nigri- 

 tum, &c. ; Draba alpina, lapponica, and muriceUa 

 (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 

 Arbuscida (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), Carex 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 

 cryptogami, Lecidea morio, Grimmia Donniana, and 

 Saxifraga stellaris ft comosa, I have not found a 



