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»The vegetuUon iii Jamesoirs Lund is siiperior lo ;my 

 thing tliat I couUl have expected in snch a latilnde. Abont 

 the hamlet , the gronnd was ricliiy clolhed with irrass . a l'oot 

 in heiijhl : and more inland. m\ Father, who explored this 

 conntrv to a jireal extent, discovered conslderable tracts that 

 might jnstiy be denominated green-land, patcbes of several acres, 

 occnrring liere and tliere. (according to the testimony ofMr. ScotI, 

 surgeon of the Kame), «of as fine meadow-land as could be seen 

 in England". There was»a considerable variety of grasses, and 

 many other piants in a beantifnl state. A good deal of the 

 vegetation, liowever, that was without shelter, was completely 

 parched np by the heat of the sun. The most luxnriant tracts 

 Nvere those little \o\\ plains. siniilar to that near Neill's Clin's, 

 whicli werc covered with a tolerable soil, vvhere the percolation 

 of the water from the nielted snows of the higher land. pro- 

 dnced a fruitfnl irrigation of the plains below. I obtained here 

 very fine specimens, though mostly of the dwarf kind, of 

 Ranunculus idvalis. Saonfraga cernua, S. nivalis, S. cæspitosa or 

 Groenlandica, S. oppositifolia, Eriophorum capitatum, Epilohimn 

 latifolium, Dryas octopetala, Papaver nudtcaule, Bhodiola rosea, 

 &c. with the creoping dwarf willows before met with. The 

 whole nnmber of species that I collected was about fourty. 



and in insecls, . . . butterflies, moths, bees, 



gnats, &c.». 



C a p S t e w a r t besøgte jeg tre Gange, men knn i kortere Tid, 

 og jeg var hver (iang saa optaget af at samle Forsteninger, at 

 der knn blev ringe Lejlighed til botaniske Indsandinger. D. 6.Aug. 

 1891 var jeg i Land en Timestid, d. 22. Ang. 1891 ligeledes 

 nogle Timer, og endelig kom jeg her igen d. 12. Aug. 1892, da 

 vi paa Hjemvejen til Enropa byggede Proviantsknr. 



Cirønlænderhnsene og deres nærmeste Omgivelser vare 

 dækkede af et frodigt og friskgrønt Græstæppe, dannet af Alo- 

 pecurns alpmus, endvidere Saxifrager og Taraxacum officinale. 



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