Scottish and SktLTtd/ondvian Flordti. By Dr Sttiart. 1)1 



the sunnnit, Audromedu polifulia and Vacc'uuam uxycoccua, the true 

 cranberry, were gathered, and several stunted heaths were 

 observed, by no means common in this part of Norway. Voss- 

 vangen is on the regular tourist route from Bergen. Immense 

 numbers of carrioles and ponies can be turned out on occasion, 

 to transport the travellers to the romantic scenes in the neigh- 

 bourhood. We were comfortably accommodated at Fleischer's 

 Hotel, where we got the best trout we had seen in Norway; also 

 reindeer veuison nicely cooked — a change from the hard tough 

 meat (probably " pony") which in the wild regions, we were 

 condemned to consume. Next morning we were transported by 

 a wonderful railway to Bergen, which we reached in a leisurely 

 fashion, about mid-day, having passed through about sixty 

 tunnels in 64 miles. The scenery all along the track was most 

 attractive, and much softer in character, than where we had been. 

 At Bergen we joined our good ship the St. Sunniva, where we 

 again occupied our former quarters. The North Sea for a few 

 hours after leaving Bergen, gave us a taste of its quality, but we 

 managed to sail out of the storm, and after a pleasant voyage, 

 reached Aberdeen and Leith roads about mid-night of the 19th, 

 and Berwickshire on the 20th, at 9.30 a.m., having been absent 

 just 10 days — the weather on the whole being fine throughout. 

 The absence of many of our Scottish plants in Norway, cannot 

 fail to attract attention. There are no globe flowers, Trollius 

 JHuropeeus, by the river banks, and no wild Thyme, Thymus 

 tierpyllum, among the gravel. Neither the broom nor the whin, 

 two of our most ornamental plants when in bloom, are to be 

 seen. No wild honey-suckle rambling over the tree trunks. 

 Neither holly nor ivy are visible. Instead of "the burr thistle 

 spreading wide among the bearded bear," our National emblem, 

 a small Carduus incanus var. setosus takes its place. No daisies 

 nor dandelions — very little fox-glove — only seen about Odde, 

 although we were on ground constantly, where in Scotland, we 

 would have been sure to have met with it. A very common plant 

 the Rag-weed ( Senecio Jacolcea) was never seen. The hemlock, 

 Conium maculatum, and Armeria maritima, sea-pink, both common 

 Scottish plants, were absent. Asplenium viride (the green spleen- 

 wort) so beautiful in moist crevices, and Saxifraga hypnoides, the 

 mossy saxifrage, both common in our country, are awanting here, 

 and many other names might be added ; the above mentioned 

 may be taken as a sample. In conclusion, I have to record with 



