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The islands in the Kvfenangen Fjord are all low and consist of schists with 

 impressive layers of limestone, probably of Cambro-Silurian age. Scirpus 

 pumilus is easily recognized, but it has never been seen outside of the counties 

 Finnmark and Troms, thus never in the mountains of southern Norway, 



Fig. 2. The north European distribution of Scirpus pumilus, only in north Norway. 

 The nearest localities are in the Carpathians and the Alps. 



where there are calciferous mica schist and hmestone in many places. The 

 nearest Scirpus pumila localities outside of Troms and Finnmark are found in 

 the Alps and in the Carpathians. 



No phytogeographer can possibly accept the tabula rasa theory in view of 

 the examples from Scandinavia which I have enumerated above: on one 

 hand Draba crassifoUa, Carex scirpoidea, Pedicularis flammea, and Arenaria 



