G38 Dll. JOHN LOWE ON WAYSIDE DOTANY IN NORWAY. 
owing to the dry weather here, as elsewhere, much smaller than 
usual. At the top of the Pass above Meraak, Cornvs s-uecica in 
full fruit covered the ground with its scarlet berries. Poa alpina 
vivipara and Eriophorum alphmm were also seen. Between 
Sdholt and Molde we passed a large patch of Mulgedium alpinum 
in full bloom. Its lovely masses of purple flower are nowhere seen 
in such perfection as in Norway. 
One of the carriole horses which we had from Soholt was 
beautifully banded across the legs as so many of the Norwegian 
horses still are, though these Zebra forms are much less frequent 
than they were fourteen years ago. This one was almost as fully 
banded as the E. rhapmani. E. {irevyi in Abyssinia, the most 
northern form which has been met with, has finer stripes, but is 
otherwise not to be distinguished from the Zebra. If the Norwegian 
horses be really descended from the Quagga, as seems more than 
probable, it would be interesting to know how they arrived at this 
region so remote from their natural home. The points of resemblance 
betwixt them and the Quagga are certainly very striking : their 
size, the small ears, tawny colour, dark stripe along the back, 
extending through the centre of the mane, the outer part of which 
is tawny, and lastly, the dark bands across the legs. Types of 
this kind, which were formerly very common, are seldom seen now, 
the prevailing colour being chestnut or black. 
In the Eomsdal the more noticeable plants were, Diapeme 
lappontca, gathered by a fellow traveller. On the Eomsdalhorn, 
Potentilla aurea, and at Stuefldten, Pohjgnnatum verticillatum, 
Dianthu>i deltoides, Sidmlaria aquaiica, which occurs in great 
abundance by the Eauma Elv, Adragahis (dpmus, Amlrosace 
nepdentrionalii^, Primula scotica and Plantago major. 
Before reaching Dombaas, I had noticed that all the Potato tops, 
as far down the valley as Lesjvoerk, had sulfered severely from the 
previous night’s frost (Aug. 16th), being turned completely black. 
The thermometer liad fallen to 2° Cels. On the evening of the 
17th it again became very cold, and the thermometer at 8 p.m. 
was 4° Cels. Fearing a repetition of the severe frost, which would 
have quite ruined the crops both of corn and potatoes, Mr. Sivert 
Dombaas arranged with all the neighbouring ‘ bonders,’ to put in 
operation a plan, which, in former times was constantly practised 
under like circumstances. All the men in the district turned out 
