Jan., 1889. 
TOUR IN NORWAY. 
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to decay. The houses are constructed entirely of wood, 
excepting the chimneys, which are stone. 
The plant Cotula coronopifolia , that was first referred to, 
is a rare object about which there is a history of much interest 
in connection with the migration of plants. We found it at 
the only site where it is known to exist in Norway, Laerdal- 
soren (see map, Plate I.) ; and this was shown to us by 
Professor Lindman of Upsala University, Sweden, who has 
since kindly sent us further information on the subject, and a 
reference to the “ Botanische Zeitung” for January 17th and 
24th, 1862. which contains a careful detailed account and 
history of the plant by Dr. Buchenau. 
This plant was first found in Europe, a century and a half 
ago, in 1789, by Moeliring of Jever in North Germany (see 
map), near the coast, between Denmark and Holland, and 
he at first supposed it to be Matricaria maritima. 
The plant was next recorded in 1767, as found at Neuen- 
burg in the same district, on the high road, where rainwater 
accumulated and the spray from the sea reached; and also on 
the coast of Jahde Bay, near Jever, where Moeliring had 
lived. Then in 1788, Ehrhard of Neuenburg, and subsequently 
other botanists found the plant in that district, and also along 
the Weser River, in several places all exposed to the spray 
from the tide. 
In the next century, in 1852, Schloeter found the plant 
again in the same locality, and it also grows now in Nordeney 
Island, off the coast between Jever and Emden ; but in 100 
years it has only been found to have spread itself to a few 
other places in the province. 
It has occurred also in Sweden on a small spot in 
Bolmslan, near Goteburg (see map), but there are now no 
more traces of the plant to be seen in that place. It is 
recorded in Spain in 1852, by Willkomm, and in Portugal, 
in 1855, by De Candolle, and is also named as having been 
found in Candia. 
The original home of Cotula coronopifolia is considered to 
be the Cape of Good Hope, but it has also been found in Egypt, 
in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand ; and in South 
America, in Brazil, Monte Video and Chili ; in all the cases 
it was found growing in low lands near the seashore, as in 
Germany. The plant requires a site with short grass, and a 
soil with a certain richness of soluble salt, although it cannot 
be called a salt water plant. The Norway locality in which 
we found it, Laerdalsoren, is a low marshy ground at the 
head of one of the long sea fjords. 
