GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 525 
“In the fields and by the roadsides I found a great many 
plants which occupy similar situations in France.” ‘ Nevertheless,” 
he continues farther on, “the eye of a botanist was rejoiced by 
the sight of a vegetation belonging at once to the flora of the 
Boreal regions, of the Alps, and of the sea-shore.”’ 
Among the shrubs he discovers the Geranium sylvaticum, the 
Alpine Columbine, the Aconitum septentrionale, the Pedicularis 
of Lapland, the Trientalis Europea, the four-leaved Paris. In 
the more sheltered places were the Dogberry of Sweden, the Vac- 
cineum vitis idea, the renowned viviparous Alpine Pea; in the 
marshes the Bilberry, the Avens, or Herb Bennett of the brooks ; 
upon the sandy sea-shore the Water Plantain (Triglochin mari- 
timum), and many others equally interesting to the botanist. 
In the first days of July the traveller reached Heldringen, a 
post town situated on the borders of Northland and the Govern- 
ment of Drontheim, under latitude 65° 15’. He scaled a mountain 
whose denuded summit was 2,100 feet above the level of the 
sea. Its vegetation resembled that of the summit of the Alps. 
The Willow and the Diapensia of Lapland alone reminded him 
that he was in Norway. 
“ At Bodoé, in 67° 16,” he continues, “I saw for the first 
time houses covered with turf, upon which grew many tufts of 
grass. According to my custom, I first examined the culti- 
vated vegetables, but I saw only a few Potatoes, Peas, Radishes, 
a few Gooseberry-trees without fruit, and some fields of Barley 
and Rye. 
“In the meadows just above the sea-level I found some plants 
which would have demonstrated to me, in the absence of other 
_ proofs, how much the climate of this country approaches that of 
the most elevated Alpine regions. This was the eight petalled 
Dryas, Silene acaulis, Arctostap/ylos Alpina, Ladies’ Mantle, and 
the Bartsia of the Alps; and beside them, those vegetables of the 
northern regions which are unknown in Alpine regions, namely, 
Aconitum septentrionalis, the white Draba, the Tofieldia Alpina. 
Besides these, notwithstanding the difference of climate, some of 
the plants which are most common in the neighbourhood of Paris 
are found here, as the Dandelion, the Coltsfoot, Tussilago, the 
Meadow Cardamum (C. pratensis), the Dog’s-tooth Violet; they 
