24 CARL SKOTTSBERG, (Schwed. Südpolar-Exp. 



This is the association most rich in phanerogamous species. The Acaena is 

 very frequently accompanied by Tortilla robusta, which, however, is covered by the 

 former and hardly visible. Also the Galium is quite hidden. 



Higher up, where the incline of the slope becomes gradually less, the grasses 

 grow closer together; here and there appears a patch of mosses and lichens: 



greg. Acaena adscendt ns 



cop. Festuca erecta spars. Aira antarctica 



Galium antarcticum Phlaim alpinum. 



Blindia Skottsbergii Pogonatum alpinum 



Conostomum australe f. nanocephalum 



Dicranum aciphyllum (small cushions / 



Exodokidium subsymmetricum (wet Rhacomitrium austrogeorgicum 



places) » Willii 



Leioscyplius Skottsbergii. 



Cladonia degenerans Cladonia squamosa 



» rangiferina Siicta Freycinetii. 



This vegetation continues until, at a height of about one hundred meters, the 

 mountain rises more steeply, for here tongues of the closed, grassy tundra stretch 

 upwards between the beds of stone debris. Between the stones grow solitary 

 plants, viz.: 



Acaena adscendeus Galium antarcticum 



» tenera Polystichum mohrioides var. plicatum ; 



on the stones: 



Neuropogon melaxanthum Pannelia enteromorpha 



Sphaerophoron coralloides. 



North side of Bore valley, round May Cove. (Plate 2, 5: 2). Between the 

 rounded hillocks, which were described above, we find everywhere where there is 

 dry ground a tundra of the following composition: 



soc. — greg. Festuca erecta spars. — sol. Acaena tenera 



cop. Acaena adscendens Aira antarctica 



Phleum alpinum. 



