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Bottom of the Sierak-Valley with the inner clayey flat. In the foreground 
to the right luxuriant Vaccinium-heath. 
Herby slope on Kakasuak in Kingorsuak ab. 600 m above sea-level. The 
uppermost, most humid, part of the herby slope with rocky steps, from 
which the water is oozing down through Alchimilla, Archangelica and Salix. 
Archangelica officinalis. A solitary ab. 100 em high specimen on Kakasuak 
630 m. above the sea-level. 
View of the extensive willow-thicket in Kingorsuak, In the background 
the Fjord and the moraine of the last névé. 
Etiolated bottom vegetation in the great willow-thicket in Kingorsuak. To 
the left Cerastium alpinum and Taraxacum croceum, in the middle Phego- 
pteris Dryopteris. "|, nat. size. July 31st 1902. 
Bottom of dried out pond in Amaka with Alopecurus aristulatus. 
Chamenerium latifolium in loose downsliding basalt gravel. Vahl’s Fjord. 
Mountain at Misutok. The figure shows the difference between the steep 
highmountain and the more level mountain foot. 
Salix glauca. Bush from the border between rocky field and heather-moor. 
The erect longshoots were frequently snowless in the winter, and are now 
killed; the decumbent short shoots are budding. (June 1st 1902). Elvvakker, 
Tasiusak. : 
Salix glauca. Espalier on detached, vertical rock in rocky field. The 
branches are S-shaped, bowed by snow-pressure. Elvbakker, Tasiusak. 
Willow-bush from the great thicket in Kingorsuak. Vertical height 105 cm. 
The bottompart and the decumbent parts of the branches were covered by 
leaves and detritus. 
Low, creeping willow-bush (Salix glauca) with earthcovered trunk from 
the heather-moor west of Tasiusak. 
Transverse sections of trunks from Angmagsalik. 1, 2, 3, 5: Salix glauca. 
4, 6, 7: Betula nana. 9, 10, 11, 12: Juniperus communis v. nana. But a 
few of the yearly rings are noted down. The not dotted line is the border 
between duramen and sap-wood. 
Lowstemmed willow-bush from open thicket in Elvbakker by Tasiusak. 
Height of trunk 17 cm. 
Birch-espalier (Betula nana). From heather-moor in Kingorsuak. The trunk 
is 33 mm. in diameter at the bottom. 
Juniperus communis v. nana. Espalier with snowpressed, S-shaped branches. 
The greater part of the trunk is stripped of bark and killed, only a few 
branchends bear still leaves. Age ab. 216 (Transverse section 11, Fig. 32). 
Vertical, south-west exposed rock 130 m. above sea level. Elvbakker, Tasiusak. 
Top of the mountain Amaga (100—630 m above sea-level) by Tasiusak. In 
the foreground grass field, in the background grassy slope and bare sand 
with rests of huge snowdrifts, which are seen in fig. 8. The steep rocks 
are devoid of vegetation. 
Grass-field near the beach of Kordlortok, made up of Calamagrostis neglecta ; 
in the background Carex rigida. 
Vaccinium-heath with Polygonum viviparum v. alpinum and Carex rigida. 
The lead-pencil is 13 cm. high. Cape Warming. 
Gravelly flat on Look-out-mountain with thin lichen-cover to the left. 
Windworn tuft of Loiseleuria procumbens in shelter of two small flat stones 
on an abrasion-flat in rocky field. Elvbakker by Tasiusak. The middle of 
of the tuft is lichenized (Stereocaulon) ‘|; nat. size. 
Silene acaulis on gravelly flat. The tuft, which is highly eroded on the 
northside but fast growing towards south, is 25 cm in diameter and is 
