i 3 2 NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY, 



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

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

 they con trad 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 mall clofe this fubjed of the plants in Norway, and their fi- 

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

 following paffage 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 fituations; as may be feen in Flor. Lappon. The plants 

 are no where fo expofed to ftrong concuffions 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 fince 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 Qefal- 

 pin, Tournefort, Columna, and Pontedera, as growing on the leffer 

 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-tafted berries are to be 



a abi d e P btr;, 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, 



