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was not wholly absent, but the mosses and lichens of which it is elsewhere composed are about as 
feebly developed as possible, and instead of forming a continuous covering they occur in small 
separate tufts, leaving the ground between them raw and bare as that of a newly-ploughed tield. 
The phanerogamous plants, both on the lowest grounds and the slopes and hilltops as far as seen, 
were in the same severely repressed condition and as sparsely planted in tufts an inch or two in 
diameter, with about from one to three feet of naked soil between them. Some portions of the 
coast, however, farther south presented a greenish hue as seen from the ship at a distance of eight 
or ten miles, owing no doubt to vegetation growing under less unfavorable conditions. 
From an area of about half a square mile the following plants were collected : 
Savifraga flegellaris, Willd. Senecio frigidus, Less. 
stellaris, L. var. cornosa, Poir. Potentilla nivea, Li. 
sileneflora, Sternb. Srigida, Vill.? 
hieracifolia, Waldst. & Kit. Armeria macrocarpa, Pursh. 
rivularis, L. var, hyperborea, Hook, vulgaris, Willd. 
bronchialis, L. Stellaria longipes, Goldie, var. Edwardsii T. & G. 
serpyllifolia, Pursh Cerastium alpinum, L. 
Anemone parviflora, Michsx. Gymnandra Stelleri, Cham & Schlecht. 
Papaver nudicaule, L. Salix polaris, Wahl. 
Draba alpina, L. Luzulu hyperborea, R. Br, 
Cochleria officinalis, L. Poa arctica, R. Br. 
Artemisia borealis, Willd. Aira cespitosa, L. var. Arctica. 
Nardosmia frigida, Hook. Alopecurus alpinus, Smith, 
Saussurea monticola, Richards, 
