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the shore of the Lake Sandevand, where we were ferried across 

 in native skiffs, to Jordal, the cherry trees (small standards) 

 were loaded with a profusion of fruit. The white heart variety 

 I never saw of finer quality. A bright red variety was the 

 commoner sort grown. The trees were of a weeping character, 

 and beautiful objects to look at. On reaching Jordal — a hamlet 

 embowered in cherry and apple orchards loaded with fruit, we 

 followed the track by a river coming from the glacier. The air 

 was warm, and our walk a very hot one, for several hours, 

 through groves of Alnus incana, which supplants Alnus 

 glutinosa, the common alder of this country. We at length 

 reached the Buarbrce glacier, having refreshed at the Buar 

 Farm, the last in the valley. This glacier is an offshoot from 

 the Folgefund snow-field, which extends for 40 miies, and of 

 which we had an excellent view in sailing up the fiord in the 

 morning. A rushing river escapes from a blue ice arch and 

 tumbles in rapids and cascades, towards the lake we crossed. 

 The sides of the mountains were clothed with Polypodium 

 Phegopteris, the Beech fern, interspersed with golden patches of 

 Struthiopteris Germanica, the Ostrich-feather fern (a continental 

 species) which gave a character to the hillside, previous to reach- 

 ing the glacier. Close to the ice and snow, in the debris of the 

 moraine, by the side of the glacier, grew Saxifraga rivularis, 

 which, although in abundance was by no means so luxuriant as 

 on Lochnagar or Ben Nevis or in Glen Spean. A little higher 

 Saxifraga ccespitosa was detected in second flower, the flowers 

 aimost sessile. The seed of the first flower was quite ripe, and I 

 have now young plants from the seed I carried home. This was 

 also a very interesting plant, as we had gathered it the previous 

 year in Glen Spean after being lost for 50 years ; being then 

 gathered on Ben Avon by the late Dr Martin Barry- 

 There were also Saxifraga nivalis, S. aizoides, S. aurantiaca, 

 and S. stellaris. Saxifraga Cotyledon, a most handsome 

 species with its white feathery plumes of flowers, was in 

 great beauty higher up on the rocks. It is the commonest Saxi- 

 frage in the Hardanger region. Silene rupestns grew everywhere, 

 and is perhaps the best alpine we obtained in the country. It is a 

 singularly elegant plant, with its slender stems and white flowers. 

 Gentiana purpurea was sparingly gathered, and is new to us all. 

 The other plants were Gnaphalium Norvegicum, Bartsia alpina, 

 several Varices, grasses and willows, with Arabis perfoliala, 



