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DR. JOHN LOWK ON WAYSIDE DOTANY IN NORWAY. 
plentiful, but I was unable to find the double-flowered variety 
which I met with on my first visit. 
On the way from Vik to Eidde some days were spent at Ulvik, 
which is, I think, one of the most charming places in Norway. 
The well-wooded mountains and distant snow peaks surrounding 
the fjord make such a picture as one rarely sees out of Switzerland. 
Add to this a cloudless sky (thermometer 82° F. in the shade), 
with cool delicious breezes from the fjord ; an abundant supifiy of 
the purest water ; a clean, well-furnished house and excellent 
cuisine, such as Madame Westrheim’s, and we have as good 
a summer health resort as one can imagine. The sunsets here are 
of the loveliest. At nine p.m. (July 16) the snow mountains 
were coloured with a rich jjurple tint ; as this faded, a bank of cloud 
above them assumed a bright red colour, and a rainbow appeared 
directly overhead. Strangely enough, this, too, was bright red, and 
so far as I could discover, no other colour was present in it. Along 
the shore Plantago maritima and Glaux mantima were fairly 
abundant. Lychnis viscaria, Potentilla anserina, a not common 
plant in Norway, Rhamniis fcanyula, and Galeopsis versicolor 
were also noticed; and on an excursion to the Espeland’s Vand 
I found an abundance of Lohelia dortmanna, Arctosfaphylos 
alpinus, Carex at rata, C. mderi, C. puUcaris, C. ylauca, Juncus 
filifoiinis ; Lycopodium inundatum, L. annotinum, etc., were also 
observed. I noticed on the way from Eidde to Vossevangen 
Carduus heternpliyllus, Eriophorum vayinatum, Artemisia vuhjans, 
Populus tremida. Primus avium, Nymphrea alba, Montia fontana ; 
and at Vosstrcndal, a dense mass of Lysimachia thyrsiflora, also 
Comarum pahistre; at Vinge, Linum catharticum, Carex vesicaria, 
<and Galium pahistre; in the Stalheim Kiev, Impatiens noli-me- 
tangere, Lactuca muralis, Euonymus europieus were rather plentiful, 
and Poa caisia, L., on rocks by the Fjord at Gudvangen ; Sesleria 
ccerulea, PimpineJJa saxifraga, Sedum album, S. villosum. Origa- 
num vulgare, Cerastium alpinum, Calamintha clinojmlium, etc., 
were found near Gudvangen, and some remarkably fine fronds of 
Woodsia, which were fully nine inches long. On the shore at 
Lcerdalsdren, a Cape plant (Cotula coronojii folia) was pointed out 
to me by Dr. C. Lindman. This is the only locality in Europe 
where it is found. It seems to be well established, and is evidently 
spreading, as I found it fully a mile from the spot where it was 
