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intermixed with Salix herbacea which latter did not occur outside 

 this locality (Fig. 15; see also Fig. 5). 



North of this Cassiope-be\t and Dryas-border the vegetation became 

 sparse, consisting only of some tufts of, e. g. Carex nardina and Poa 

 abbreviata. The most northerly part of Basiskær seen upon the map 

 has become drained. There are dark masses of barren clay, and 

 the surrounding parts consist of tufted Careæ-bog of which the 

 principal contents are mosses, Carex pulla, Ardagrostis and Salix. 

 Towards the north-west, in the dampest part between pools and 

 water-courses, vigorous individuals of Ranunculus sulphureus occurred 



Fig. 16. Wind-affected forms of Dnjas. 



and, hidden in mosses, Juncus biglumis together with Cardamine 

 bellidifolia. At a short distance from that place Pleuropogon was 

 floating, late in the summer, in that part of the river which was 

 the first to dry up when frost set in. 



Though the area included in the map is limited, yet this patch 

 of ground and its immediate surroundings are relatively rich in the 

 representatives of the vegetation of Germania Land; and I venture 

 to hope that the area may be of interest as a useful illustration 

 en détail, on account of the notes I have added upon it. 



As peculiar wind-affected forms occur the worn-off tufts 

 especially of Cobresia Bellardii and Carex nardina, as also of Silène 

 and Dryas. The illustration of the D/-yas-tuft (Fig. 16) is of one from 



