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Popular manual of vascular plants with keys (including one on Linnaean 
system), short descriptions, and brief annotations; illustrated glossary, list 
of wild medicinal plants. 
Thorsrud, Arne, and Reiszter, Oddvin. Norske plantenavn. xviii, 276 p. 
21 cm. Oslo, 1948. ; 
Discussion of scientific and popular nomenclature; alphabetical list of 
scientific names of wild and cultivated vascular and cellular plants, with 
selected Norwegian vernacular equivalents; alphabetical list of vernacular 
names with botanical equivalents, the vernacular names of each species 
collected under the one that is selected as standard; list of abbreviations of 
authors’ names. The authors have adopted with only few changes the © 
vernacular names used in the floras of Nordhagen (1940) and Lid (1944). 
Publication of Instituttet for blomsterdyrking ved Norges Landbrukshegskole. 
—See also Aasen, above, and additional references there given. 
Tonning, Henrik. Norsk medicinsk og oeconomisk flora, indeholdende 
adskillige planter, som fornemmelig ere samlede i Tronhiems stift ... samt 
oplyses med forngdne beskrivelser, og anmezrkninger udi lege-kunsten, 
landhuusholdningen, farverier m. m....v.1. [16] 187 p. 21 cm. Kigben- 
havn, 17738. | 
Account of 240 medicinal and agricultural plants, with vernacular names 
and uses. Vol. 1 ends with Didynamia; no more published. (Not seen; 
annotation supplied mostly by J. Lid.)—See also Christophersen (Norske 
medisinplanter) and Holmboe (Gamle norske matplanter); above, and 
additional references there given. 
AKERSHUS 
Akershus fylke was formerly Akershus amt. It is here taken, as in Lid’s Norsk flora, to 
include the enclaved Oslo fylke (formerly Kristiania amt). 
Local 
Blytt, Axel. Christiania omegns phanerogamer og bregner med angivelse 
af deres udbredelse samt en indledning om vegetationens afhengighed af 
underlaget. viii, 103 p. 23 em. Christiania, 1870. 
Geology, soils, phytogeography, etc. (with abstract in French); annotated 
list of 951 vascular plants (and 12 doubtful species). Replaces Blytt, M. N. 
Enumeratio plantarum vascularium, qvae circa Christianiam sponte nascun- 
tur. 76 p. 23 cm. Christianiae, 1844. Also replaces Lund, Nikolai. 
Haandbog i Christianias phanerogame flora. 4 p. lL. xvii, 334 p. table. 
17.5 cm. Christiania, 1846. (Gray Herbarium library.) 
Poulsson, Edvard. Fortegnelse over Sjursgens bregner og blomsterplanter. 
Nyt Mag. Naturv. 62: 52-59. 1925. 
Geology, general features of flora; unannotated list of vascular plants. 
(Small island 2.5 kilometers south of Oslo.) 
Stermer, Per. Vegetationsstudien auf der insel Hagya im Oslofjord unter 
besonderer beriicksichtigung der gefasspflanzen und moose. Skr. Norske 
Vidensk.-Akad. Oslo I. Mat.-Naturv. Kl. 1938, no. 9. 155 p. 42 fig. (incl. 
map). 1938. 
Botanical explorations, geology, climate, general features of flora, plant 
associations, ecology; annotated alphabetical lists of known vascular plants 
(578 species), mosses, lichens, fungi, and myxomycetes; bibliography. (An 
island in Oslofjord, about 30 kilometers south of Oslo.) 
AUST-AGDER 
Aust-Agder fylke was formerly Nedenes amt. 
Local 
Blytt, M. N. Fortegnelse over phanerogame planter og bregner, samlede 
ved Arendal 1838. Bot. Notiser 1840: 1-8. 1840. 
List of vascular plants [520 species], mostly without specific localities. 
Engelbrethsen, Peder. Havskjerenes flora. Naturen (Bergen) 29 (III, 
9): 1388-144. map. 1905. 
