i 3 2 NATURAL HISTORY oi NORWAT\ 



has much of the appearance of Angelica. The Bears are faid to 

 be extremely fond of it, and when by excefies in eating of it, 

 they contract; an oppilation, they feek for. relief from the flefh of 

 animals. Mariahaand and Fandenfhaand, i. e. Devils-hand, are two 

 roots fomewhat refembling a hand with five fingers, but diftin- 

 guifhed by their colour; the laft is black and ufelefs, and the firft 

 white, and good for fore heads, and other eruptions in children. 



I mail clofe this fubjecl: of the plants in Norway, and their ft- 

 milarity with the plants, in other mountainous countries, with the 

 following pafiage from the celebrated Linneus, " thofe mountains 

 which reach the upper region of the air, and the furface whereof 

 are continually covered with fnow, produce their peculiar plants, 

 of which the Alps in Switzerland, in Wales, the Pirenees, the 

 Olympus, Baldus, and Arrarat, are inftances, the like not growing 

 in lower fttuations; as may be feen in Flor. Lappon. The plants 

 are no where fo expofed to ftrong concuflions of the wind, as on 

 the mountains, by which the growth and maturity of them is 

 confiderably accelerated. This is an expedient of nature to fupply 

 the fhortnefs of the fummer. Tournefort, in his hazardous afcent 

 to the top of mount Arrarat, at the foot of it, met with the fame 

 vegetables, which he had found all over Armenia; a little higher 



- he found feveral which had not occurred to him iince his depar- 

 ture from France ; in his further progrefs, he found conyfa coerulea^ 

 acris, cotoneafter folio rotundo, hieracium fruticofum anguftifolium 

 majus, jacobea fenecionis folio rag. euphrafia vulgaris, and others 

 which are common in Sweden; but on the fummit, he found the 

 very fame plants which are produced on the mountains of Switzer- 

 land, and Lapland." The plants which are defcribed by Caefal- 



' pin, Tournefort, Cofumna, and Pontedera, as growing on the lefTer 

 hills of Italy, abound in every meadow with us, all which pro- 

 ceeds from the air, and the altitude of the foil. 



SECT. III. 



whoifom A great variety of wholfom and well-tailed berries are to be 



HiltrL found in Norway; firft, here are, as in Denmark, and other 



places, cherries of feveral kinds, of which, particularly the peafants 



in Sognefiord, and Hardanger, fell great quantities dried. Hage- 



bar, probably a kind of floes, an infufion of which in wine, like 



cherries, 



