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zontal, boggy surface, below the slope of the mountain (Fig. 20), 

 The vegetation was alinost identical in all of them : In the middle, 

 Mniobryum albicans var. glacialis was found intermixed with Montia 

 riviilaris, then came a helt of Philonotis fontana, often greatly inter- 

 mixed with Marchantia polymorpha and with scattered piants of 

 Saxifraga stellaris, Eqnisetum palustre and Epilobium spp. In some 

 moss bogs a pure Hypnetnm composed of H. exannulatum var. 

 purpurascens or H. Kneiffii had been developed. 



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Fig. 20. Moss bog nenr Scydisfjordur. The light-coloured patch in the middle is 

 Mniobrijum albicans var. glacialis. In the foregmund and on the sides Philonotis fontana. 



2. Hnsavik, moss bog on slightly inclined ground: In the 

 middle Mniobryum albicans var. glacialis and Marchantia polymorpha 

 were found, and around Ihis a belt of Bryum ventricosum f. major, 

 Mnium affine var. elatiim and Philonotis fontana, and outside it all 

 an almost pure belt of Philonotis. 



3. Breidabolstadr, slightly inclined grassland with scattered 

 moss bogs : In the middle Mniobryum albicans var. glacialis grew inter- 

 mixed with Bryum ventricosum f. major; around this was a belt of 

 Philonotis fontana, and outside it all Mnium affine var. elatum and 

 Acrocladium cuspidatum. Some smaller moss bogs below the slope 



