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Point II upon the map of the station indicates a small pond 

 which dried up some time in the course of the summer and was 

 again refilled by the ground-w^ater from the bog above. In the near 

 surroundings of the pond, towards the west, occurred in early summer 

 a rich growth of Ranunculus glacialis (Fig. 13) which gradually be- 

 came intermixed with Statice armeria which appears to thrive in the 

 conditions which occur there late in the year. 



Point III, upon the flat gravelly field, was the only locality in 

 immediate proximity to the station where Arenaria , which was 

 common further into the country, was found. In similar localities 



Fig. 14. Taraxacum arcticnm (Trautv.) Dahlst. f. albißora. 



but higher up and on a solid stony bottom, deeply covered with 

 snow during the winter, Erigeron compositus was found; it keeps to 

 the southern side and extends upwards, as far as the ground reaches 

 which has previously been a sea-bottom. 



The speciality of the small clay-island (Lerö), which is desig- 

 nated Point IV, was Equiseium arvense together with a luxuriant 

 growth of Salix, Dryas and Draba. The depression around Point V 

 is filled with snow during winter, and decaying parts of plants also 

 gather there; upon the whole the locality appeared to offer possi- 

 bilities for the formation of humus; nevertheless its only inhabitants 

 after the melting of the snow were a small association of white- 

 flowering Taraxacum arcticum (Fig. 14). Similar localities, especially if 



