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DR. JOHN LOWli ON WAVSlDli 130TANY IN NORWAY. 
IX. 
WAYSIDE BOTANY AXD XOTES IX XOKWAY IX 1888. 
By -John Lowe, M.D. 
Read 26 th February, i88g. 
It is generally admitted that the pleasure of travelling is greatly 
enhanced by having a varied source of interest along the route. 
After enjoying the splendid panoramas and glorious scenery, for 
instance, which one meets with in Xorway, it is very restful to turn 
for awhile to the minor natural beauties which lie at our feet, and 
in noting the rarer and less familiar plants which are strewn beside 
our track, to discover fresh sources of interest, as it were, at every 
step. 
There are few countries, and few modes of travelling, which lend 
themselves so well to this kind of observation as Xorway and its 
carrioles. 
Wayside Botany here affords, without deviating more tlian a few 
yards from the track, a host of species which it would require days 
of toilsome climbing to discover in this country. 
I have thought, therefore, that a brief record of the products of 
such a journey might possibly be not uninteresting to some of 
the Members of the Norfolk and X^orwich Xaturalists’ Society, 
for which, although no longer a X’^orfolk resident, I still entertain 
a warm regard ; and your President has been good enough to say 
that such a paper would not be unacceptable. 
The Xorwegian Flora very closely resembles that of Great Britain, 
but with the addition of many Arctic and Scandinavian forms 
which do not occur in this country; although nearly all the Alpine 
species of Scotland are there to be met with. The list of species 
observed is fairly extensive, but by no means an exliaustive one, 
even of the districts through which my route lay. It might easily 
have been largely increased by short detours to the fjelds, but this 
was not practicable ; and as the line laid out before starting was 
steadily adhered to, the whole of the species noted come strictly 
under the lieading of this paper. 
