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point from 40 to 45 metres broad, the snow was yet lying deep, 

 but there were a few pools here and there; higher up it appeared 

 as if a single spot was free from ice and in this opening in the ice 

 several swimmers (loons) lived. 



In a pond formed from melted snow, the temperature of which 

 measured + 16.4°, Oxyria digyna was seen with large, fresh, leafy 

 shoots and a Statice with an almost fully developed flower-bud. On 

 dry ground, on the other hand, Oxyria develops flower at the expense 

 of its leaves — the reverse is found to be the case in Statice. In 

 spite of the falling temperature, -L- 7.5° was measured at 8.30 p. m. 

 in a larger lake. Around the tenting-place stood crowds of Saxifraga 

 oppositifolia in bloom. At night the temperature went down to 

 below 0°. The whole of the next day there was a dense fog, so 

 dense that tent-ropes were covered Avith rime, and the swinging 

 thermometer also became covered with ice during use; the following 

 night the temperature went down to — 2.0°. Not until late in the 

 day, on the 15th, did the fog disperse by a fresh breeze from 

 the NW. 



As it might be of great interest to see spring advance toward 

 the head of the fjord I tried to reach Fuglenæbsfjæld, near a 

 spot which I had visited at the end of August the previous year; 

 but already off Rypefjeld, about 10 km. from Hvalrosodde, the 

 sledge w^as stopped by a crack in the ice; and as it was not possible 

 to proceed further by the sledge, I went ashore there. Upon sloping 

 ground, copiously watered by melting snow, one of the usual Erio- 

 phorum-hogs was formed (Figs. 1, 2). Here masses of lumps of Nostoc 

 were lying, and here Eriophorum polystachyum was found alread}' 

 in flower. Around Danmarks Havn the species was not seen flowering 

 until the end of the month. Next day when I visited "Trekroner" 

 I found Draba arctica (J. Vahl) in flower while it was not seen 

 flowering at Danmarks Havn till the 22nd. As might be expected, 

 these few features indicate an earlier spring in the interior of the 

 fjords than down by the coast. 



Unfortunately the conditions on the ice were such that they 

 compelled me to retreat early so I had to limit my excursions to a 

 single visit to "Trekroner" on June the 16th. 



This rather formidable mass of rocks forms the eastern boundary 

 of Sælso; it consists of three elevations, separated by valleys, with 

 surfaces consisting of boulders and large stones with intervening, 

 flattened areas covered by the products of weathering. Strangely 

 enough, I found up here Trisetiim, which in the coastal region is 

 only found on sheltered rock-ledges with a snow-covering of long 

 duration. But a similar snow-covering may probably also be found 



