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delighted with a wealth of flowers instead of berries. The 

 Alpine azalea lights up the ground with its profuse display 

 of rosy blossoms, and the purplish-white flowers of the 

 Anemone vernalis, and the exquisite pale cream-coloured 

 lily of the valley (Smilacina bifolia) give the floor of the 

 valley an aspect of wind-driven foam. The flora of Alpine 

 heights and lowland plains are found flourishing together 

 in vigorous profusion, wild pansies, blue-bells, and ragged- 

 robins being interspersed amongst the bright pink of the 

 Silene acaulis, the snowy spikes of Saxifraga cotyledon, and 

 the heavenly blue of the Alpine Veronica. In Norway the 

 lovers of flowers, mosses, and lichens will find a grand field 

 for study. On the Dovre Fjeld range alone botanists have 

 obtained specimens of as many as 200 mosses, 150 lichens, 

 50 Algve, and more than 400 phanerogamous plants and 

 ferns. 



' The open, park-like scenery of the lightly timbered 

 country charms the eye more than the sombre aisles of the 

 vast fir forests. Eastward of the Dovre Fjeld, where the 

 undulating country slopes away from the Sneehsetten and its 

 sister snow-peaks, the traveller on his way north to Trond- 

 hjem skirts for many miles a mighty forest of spruce and 

 Scotch fir. From the little posting station of Garlid, 

 perched on a sunny spot above a brawling trout stream, 

 the eastward view is singularly impressive. An immense 

 tract of country is embraced in the landscape, and away 

 to the blue horizon nothing but trees and sky can be seen, 

 the swelling hills everywhere clad with a dense growth of 

 timber and presenting a strangely stern and dusky aspect 

 even in the brightest sunshine. Cross the river, strike 

 boldly into the heart of the forest, and you will find that 

 its appearance from afar is belied by a close insight of 

 its dim recesses, Here propinquity, not distance, lends 

 enchantment to the view. The huge trunks of the firs 

 are not so thickly grouped that the sunbeams cannot 

 chequer with bright patches the needle-sprinkled ground. 

 Here are broad tracts of the beautiful stag's-horn moss 

 and the bright moltebcere plant, clumps of woodsia and the 



