326 GEOGRAPHICAL BOTANY. 



Mentha sativa.. Quercus Robur. 62. 



(South of Sweden.) According to Blom, 63. 



Fagus sylvatica. 61. (South of Sweden.) 



( Bohuslan.) Allium ursinum. 63. 



( Bohuslan.) 



c. Inland plants of the eastern districts of southern 

 Norway, which are absent on the western coast. (Ex- 

 cluding those of the Ejeld.) 



Pulsatilla vernalis. Dracocephalum Ruyschiana. 



Trottius EuroptBus. Thymus Chamaedrys. 



Berberis vulgaris. Pedicularis Sceptrum. 



Ledum rupestre. amygdalina. 



Galium trifidum. Carex capital a. 

 Hieracium cymosum. parallela. 



Pyrola chlorantha. 



d. Plants of the Eastern Fjeld, principally observed on 

 the Dovre-fjeld, but not found on the western coast (some 

 species which I myself found at Hardanger, and which 

 are therefore more widely distributed, are omitted in this 

 list, viz. Aconitum septentrionale, Draba hirta, Gentiana 

 nivalis, and Salix arbuscula). 



Ranunculus hyperborem. Saxifraga controversa. 



Lychnis apetala. Primula stricta. 



Alsine hirta. Gentiana tenella. 



Oxytropis lapponica. Koenigia Islandica. 



Phaca oroboides. Junctus arcticus. 



frigida. Kobresia caricina. 



Potentilla nivea. Elyna spicata. 



Saxifraga cernua. Carex microglochin. 



A remarkable peculiarity of the highlands of Norway, 

 and which is not merely indicated, but satisfactorily 

 established by this catalogue, yet cannot be explained by 

 means of the variations of climate pointed out above, 

 consists in the fact that the Alpine vegetation appears to 

 attain its maximum, as regards the number of species, on 

 the Dovre mountains, and that it diminishes from this 

 locality both towards the west and the south. Moreover 

 in these directions the individual numbers of many cha- 



