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From Umånaq we sailed for Kuk better known as "Korne" the 

 famoiis site for the Cretaceous Korne fossils at the north coast of the 

 Nugssiiaq Peninsula. Vanhoffen collected piants at this locality in 

 1892. The river which has given its name to the place has formed a 

 narrow valley where sediments and gneiss meet in the riverbed. Here 

 among boulders and shingle I noticed a few arctic species: Lesquerella, 

 Drijas integrijolia var. canescens, Potentilla Vahliana and Calamagrostis 

 purpiirascens. 



In a Cassiope tetragona heath gently sloping towards the river I 

 noticed the very rare and high-arctic Eiitrema Edwardsii one speeimen 

 of which was recorded from here by Vanhoffen. It occurred with 

 Arctagrostis, Tofieldia palustris, Pedicularis hirsuta in damp mosses where 

 the heather was not too dense. The specimens were scattered and I 

 only picked up a score, some of which were seedlings. Flowering was 

 partially over (July 26th). 



On the north coast of the Peninsula several landings were made. 

 The features of the landscape are almost uniform. Towards the sea low 

 sand dunes with Elymus^ Festuca riibra var. arenaria, Taraxacum groen- 

 landicum, Carex incurva and Honckenya. Beyond the sand dunes are 

 shallow lagoons along which is a belt of Puccinellias, Carex ursina, 

 incurva and glareosa, and between the lagoon and the dry land there 

 is a peculiar form of salt marshes on which sometimes very extensive 

 patches of the beautiful, high-arctic grass Diipontia Fiskeri and Carex 

 rariflora may be seen. 



From the lagoon the land often rises to a slightly elevated plain 

 cut by numerous rivulets and from this plain the mountain range parallel 

 to the coast line sometimes rises to nearly 2000 m. Here and there a 

 glacier-river has cut through the mountains and from a steep gorge it 

 debouches on the lower ground where a fanshaped erosion-cone strewn 

 with boulders is formed. The glacial streams constantly change their 

 course and during the melting period very considerable masses of 

 detritus are carried down from the highland. 



The characteristic features of the vegetation at this locality closely 

 resemble Warming's "Fjældmark" and are well described by Holttum 

 1. c. p. 95. 



At Qaersuarssuk at a small lagoon in addition to the characteristic 

 Dupontia and Carices I also saw the rare and southern type Potentilla 

 Egedii in full flower. 



The low terrace above the settlement is exceedingly barren and the 

 vegetation is of the usual xerophile type: Carex nardina and rupestris, 

 Cobresia Bellardi^ Braya purpiirascens, Draba magellanica subsp. cinerea, 

 Lesquerella, Potentilla Vahliana and pulchella, Dryas integrijolia var. 



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