H. G. SIMMONS. fSEC.ARCT. EXP. FRAM 



rather |>uor in plant life were it not that their ledges are apt to he used 

 as n rookery where millions of fulmar petrels breed. Thus the slopes 

 helow become abundantly manured, and both the slopes of limestone 

 debris and the inner parts of the foreland are covered with a dense ver- 

 dure formed, for the greater part, of mosses but also of flowering plants. 

 On the southern side the foreland consists mostly of limestone dt'-hri>. 

 on the northern, to a considerable extent of clay also. Here the vege- 

 tation is. as usually in the clay-plains, rather open, and consists chiefly 

 of flowering plants. In the foreland there are also some shallow ponds, 

 encircled by the usual rim of mosses with a few higher plants strewn in. 



On the surface of the snowdrifts lying in the ravines, and in the 

 upper part of the slopes, ''red snow" appeared in greater abundance than 

 I have seen anywhere else; and in the rivulets, on inundated ground 

 and in the ponds many algae, especially blue-green ones, were growing 

 I>r. BRYHX has given an account of the mosses (Bryophyta. pp. 2'f">. 

 249 251 ), and it may therefore be enough to point out that he has found 

 not less than 50 species in my collection from this locality. 



The flowering plants noted or collected at Cape Vera are:- Dryax 

 htlt'i/rifolia, Saxifraga oppositifolia (3843). \ /layfHaris, S. Hindis 

 3830), 5. cernua, S. uwttlaudicti (3846). Urala ulpina (3830, 3841), 

 D. alpina var. glacial is (3826). D. subcapitata (3829), Cochlearia offi- 

 chirdi* var. groenlandica (3841), Pa paver radical um with f. Harlia- 

 iunn (3828), Ranunculus sulphur eus, Cerastium alpinum (3824). Stel- 

 lariu loiit/i/H's (3850). Alsina verna (3837), Oxyria diyyna, Salix (ur- 

 tica, Jnncus biglumis, Festuca ovuia var. supina (383!)). Poa ul>l>r<-- 

 viata (38i-0), ^- cenisia (and f. prolifcra). Glycerin dixfdns (4016). 

 Catabrosa algid a (3838), Alopecurus I pi tins (3825). I may, of course, 

 have overlooked some species or other, but I was especially struck by 

 the absence of such common plants as f. inst. Pi'dicularis liirsuta, and 

 I also sought in vain for Eriopliom and Carices. 



il. East of the large glacier west of Cape Hawes. 



During our stay here. July 17. l!H2. I \\a> chiefly occupied in dred- 

 ging, bill I could easily see that tin-; place would not yield in any ca-e 

 more than a few of the most common species such as Saxifraya ojt- 

 folifi. I'tiixirrr mdicahnn, J)rh d!j>ii/<i. ('crustium nlj>iitum, 

 c., which were growing in an open clay-Held below the cliffs. 



