Some Notes concerning the Vegetation of Germania Land 393 



dark and has white patches as of salt. The patches are due to a 

 lichen, doubtless a Lecidea which has occurred in many places, but 

 never bearing fruit. Not far from here the primitive rock outcrops 

 at an inconsiderable height. 



Scattered over a belt of about 20 metres in length and 30 

 metres in breadth there occurred here a peculiar community of 

 flowering Papaver which was conspicuous even from some distance. 

 With intervening spaces, ranging from a few cm. to above one 

 metre, the plant stood here and flow^ered richly. The ground was 

 also covered with a rich vegetation of Cochlearia officinalis L. var. 

 groenlandica, f. minor (Lge.) Gelert, which however in the flowering- 

 stage greatly resembles the white lichen-spots. Also Draba arctica, 

 a single specimen of Lazula confusa and Phippsia algida were 

 present. Saxifraga riuularis, which is certain to occur in small 

 depressions where melted snow has flowed, does not count for 

 much, but is nevertheless found in the communitз^ Here and 

 there is found a small Sagina intermedia and Alsine verna f. rubella, 

 с fl. A single tuft of Saxifraga groenlandica was also noted. In the 

 inner part of the belt, i. e. towards the primitive rocks, were found 

 Draba ßadnizensis, Saxifraga nivalis, S. cernua and S. oppositifolia 

 together with indications of Salix and Cerastium. The transition to 

 true rocky flat is indicated not only by the Salix, but also by tufts 

 of Poa abbreviata and by a more frequent occurrence of Saxifraga 

 nivalis and S. oppositifolia. These two species are not found in the 

 lower part of the community, while Cochlearia and Papaver occur 

 commonly everyw^here. As soon as one leaves this community in a 

 very true sense of the word, Papaver becomes rare and Potentilla 

 emarginata takes its place. Here Salix, with a few Stellaria long- 

 pipes, becomes dominant. In this community, Papaver and Cochlearia 

 dominate. I was surprised not to find Pedicularis where Salix and 

 Potentilla emarginata occurred. 



I found a very conspicuous community on July 5, 1908, upon 

 Kløftfjeldet where Epilobium was spreading out with great splendour 

 upon flat gravelly tracts through which tiny water-courses were 

 flowing. But there the plant was far from reaching the size attained 

 in West Greenland. 



On the same day, upon the rocky flat between Snenæs and 

 Lille Snenæs, I came across a small patch which from a distance 

 attracted my attention by its yellow colour, and w^hich, a priori, 

 I thought resulted from Papaver, but on closer inspection it proved 

 to originate from a richly flowering clump of Potentilla nivea upon 

 a gravelly slope facing south which apparently afforded a convenient 

 dwelling for a family of foxes whose continual use of the passages 



