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the snowdrift, the lemming had left three holes, and a dead lemming 

 was lying upon the ground. 



Outside this belt of Luzula, somewhat lower, and sloping slightly 

 towards the gravel patch on which the tent stood, came the Salix- 

 belt which on July 9 was intermixed with crowds of flowering Pedi- 

 cularis, and next to the gravel patch with numerous Polygonums, a 

 few Papavers, Potentilla emarginata and Silène. On the western edge, 

 in the outermost part of the belt which is about 10 metres broad, 

 Salix had finished flowering, while in the inner part it had just 

 begun. At the border there were a few tufts of Cobresia Bellardii, 



Fig. 11. "The Island" ("Øen"). 



while Hierochloë, Carex misandra and Luzula occurred here and there. 

 Around the tent occurred Melandrium, Lesquerella and Potentilla pul- 

 chella, as also Arenaria ciliata, Dryas, Taraxacum phymatocarpum 

 and Alsine rubella. 



Point I upon the map of the station which was the "Danmark's" 

 winter quarter, I have called "The Island" (Øen). As may be seen from 

 the map and the illustration (Fig. 11), the ground west of the mouth 

 of Øster Elven slopes gently from the 6-metre curve down to the 

 shore which is here quite flat. During the melting of the snow, 

 Point I at first emerged as a small island which daily increased in 

 size, and there already on June 14, 1908, a Draba alpina was in 

 flower. In the saturated soil around the plant a temperature of 



