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of Norway, Lapland, and the Russian empire, are 
comparatively rich in these departments; a cir¬ 
cumstance most probably to be attributed to their 
warmer summers, and to the undisturbed state of 
the soil. In spite of this, however, a botanist, 
coining from the more temperate climate of Great 
Britain, will still meet with many vegetable pro¬ 
ductions that will interest him, such as Azalea 
procumbens , Cardamlne hastulata , of English 
botany, Rubus saxatilis , Erigeron alpinum , Saxi- 
fraga nivalis , rivularis , cernua , and oppos'difolia, 
Silene acaulis, Veronica alpina , and fruticulosa , 
with many .other species, which he has been ac¬ 
customed to see only on the summits of his loftiest 
mountains, but which will here be found growing 
in the plains and vallies, and near the shores of the 
sea. Ranunculus lapponicus , glad alls , and hy- 
perboreus , Eriophorum capitatum , Konigia islan- 
dica , Gentiana tenella , detonsa (the ciliata of 
Retzius) , and aurea , Andromeda hypnoides , Cha- 
mcenerium halamifolium, Angelica Archangelica , 
Lychnis alpina , Papaver nudicaule , Draba con - 
torta of Retzius , Orchis hyperborea , Carex 
Bellardi , ASaZ/’cT Lapponum, and other plants pe¬ 
culiar to high northern latitudes, together with 
some, as yet undescribed, will likewise offer 
themselves for his examination, and afford him a 
pleasure, of which no one, but a naturalist, can 
form an idea, as well as what is happily termed by 
