IV.] 



THE KARA SEA. 



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Bell Ostrov, Joliannesen discovered ex- 

 tensive banks covered witli "sea-grass" 

 (algse), and from the east coast of Novaya 

 Zemlya Dr. Kjellman in 1875 collected 

 no small number of algae/ being thereby 

 enabled to take exception to the old 

 erroneous statements as to the nature of 

 the marine flora. He has drawn up for 

 this work a full account of the marine 

 vegetation in the Kara Sea, which will 

 be .found further on. 



I shall now return to the account of our 

 passage across this sea. On this subject my 

 journal contains the following notes : 



August 27id. Still glorious weather — ■ 

 no ice. The Le7ia appears to wish to 



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UMBELLPLA FROM THE KARA SEA. 



A. Polype stem entire, one-half the natural size. a 



B, Polype stem, upper part, one-and-a-half times the natural size. 



^ Already in 1771 one of Pallas' companions, the student Sujeff, found 

 large algae in the Kara Sea (Pallas, Reise. St. Petersburg, 1771 — 1776, 

 iii. p. 34). 



