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« The vegetation in Jameson’s Land is superior t o any 
thing that I could have expected in such a latitude. About 
the hamlet, the ground was richly clothed with grass, a foot 
in height; and more inland, my Father, who explored this 
country to a great extent, discovered considerable tracts that 
might justly be denominated green-land, , patches of several acres, 
occurring here and there, (according to the testimony of Mr. Scott, 
surgeon of the Fame), «of as fine meadow-land as could be seen 
in England». There was a considerable variety of grasses, and 
many other plants in a beautiful state. A good deal of the 
vegetation, however, that was without shelter, was completely 
parched up by the heat of the sun. The most luxuriant tracts 
were those little low plains, similar to that near Neill’s Clilfs, 
which were covered with a tolerable soil, where the percolation 
of the water from the melted snows of the higher land, pro¬ 
duced a fruitful irrigation of the plains below. I obtained here 
very fine specimens, though mostly of the dwarf kind, of 
Ranunculus nivalis , Saxifraga cernua , S. nivalis, S. ccespitosa or 
Groenlandica, S. oppositifolia , Eriophorum capitatum, ЕріІоЫит 
lati folium. Dry as octopetala, Pa paver nudicaule, Rhodiolci rosea, 
&c. with the creeping dwarf willow's before met with. The 
whole number of species that I collected was about fourty. 
.and in insects, . . . butterflies, moths, bees, 
gnats, &c.». 
Cap Stewart besøgte jeg tre Gange, men kun i kortere Tid, 
og jeg var hver Gang saa optaget af at samle Forsteninger, at 
der kun blev ringe Lejlighed til botaniske Indsamlinger. D. 6. Aug. 
1891 var jeg i Land en Timestid, d. 22. Aug. 1891 ligeledes 
nogle Timer, og endelig kom jeg her igen d. 12. Aug. 1892, da 
vi paa Hjemvejen til Europa byggede Proviantskur. 
Grønlænderhusene og deres nærmeste Omgivelser vare 
dækkede af et frodigt og friskgrønt Græstæppe, dannet af Alo- 
pecurus alpinus , endvidere Saxifrager og Taraxacum officinale. 
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