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course of time, and the influence of man during the ten centuries 

 he has inhabited the Islands, has most likely been to set back 

 the vegetation here and there by his operations to an earher stage 

 of development through which it has already passed. 



The aspect of the boggy-moor association is rather gloomy. 

 Grass-like piants prevail and give it a dark-green colour, much darker 

 than the meadows (Bo) and the grassy hill-slopes; »flowering« (i. e. 

 not grassy) herbs are not numerous enough to make an impression 



Fig. 179. Undulating landscape on Sando between Sand and Skopen; a small lake lies in the distance, 



to the left. The depressions are occupied by moor-forniations, the knolis by heather-moor or the inter- 



mediate association. (From photo. by F. Borgesen). 



on the vegetation. The piaces where this association occurs have, 

 as already stated, an undulating surface with many small depres- 

 sions from peat-cutting, while channels and small watercourses of 

 various forms furrow the vegetation. 



The dominant phanerogams are: Eriophorum polystachyiiin, 

 Juncus lamprocarpus, Carex stelliilata, C. flava. C. panicea and C. 

 Goodenoughii; also the following »flowering« herbs: Raniinculus 

 flamnmla, Nartheciiim, Caltha, and partially to some extent Pingui- 

 ciila, Leontodon autiimnale var. Taraxaci and Triglochin palnstre; 

 in some piaces Pedicularis paliistris, Agrostis canina and Molinia are 

 of some consequence. 



I cannot venture to say much about the mos ses. Several 

 species of Sphagnum are the most conspicuous, and the dark-green 



