Bryological notes on a trip in Norway 



by 

 H. N. Dixon and W. E. Nicholson. 



T. 



he mosses enumerated in the following list were collected 

 during a short holiday in western Norway in the summer of 

 1900 between the 18*^^ July, when we landed at Stavanger, and 

 the 11*^ August, when we sailed for England from Bergen. 

 From Stavanger we took the boat to Sand on the Sand fjord 

 and followed the overland route to Odde on the Hardanger fjord 

 through the beautiful Bratlandsdal and over the Horre pass. At 

 Odde we rested for a few days and explored the neighbourhood, 

 especially the valley leading to the Buar Brae and its terminal 

 Moraine, leaving on the 24*^' July for Vik on the Eidfjord, whence 

 we explored the sombre Simodal and the Maabødal up to the 

 magnificent Vøringfos. From Vik we travelled by way of Ulvik 

 and Vossevangen to Gudvangen on the narrow Nærøfjoi'd, whence 

 we took the boat to Lærdalsøren at the head of the Sognefjord, 

 and after spending two days there we proceeded to Maristuen 

 on the Fillefjeld, where we stayed for ten days and which we 

 found to be a very fair centre for mosses. As one leaves the 



