uu FORESTRY OF NORWAY. 
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 Alg@, 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 Sneehetten 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 moltebere plant, clumps of woodsia and the 
