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taphylos alpina, Betula glandulosa, Empetrum nigrum, 

 Abies balsamea, Juniperus communis, Picea nigra, Boletus. 



b. In the more sunny and protected situations exclu- 

 sively : Rubus arcticus, Potentilla tridentata, Taraxacum, 

 Polyganum viviparum. 



c. In both, but mainly in the more exposed : Cerastium 

 alpinum, Vaccinium Vitis-Idcea, var. minus, Rhinanthus 

 Crista-galli, Salix Brownii. 



d. In both, but mainly in the more protected: Draba 

 incana, Coelopleurum actseifolium, Cornus Canadensis, 

 Achillea millefolium, Solidago macrophylla, a fine thin 

 unknown grass. 



e. In both about equally: Stellaria longipes, Lathy rus 

 maritimus, Sedum Rhodiola, Elymus arenaria, Poa pra- 

 tensis, var. domestica, Barbula ruralis, Brachythecium, 

 Hylocomium splendens. 



At Ford Harbour, a little farther north (56), the follow- 

 ing additional species (some but not all of the above being 

 present also) were found in a similar situation: Arenaria 

 Grcenlandica, Silene acaulis, Astragalus alpinus, Oxytropis, 

 Saxifraga Grcenlandica, Epilobium latifolium, E. spicatum, 

 Antennaria, Solidago multiradiata, var. scopularum, Tarax- 

 acum officinale, var. palustre, Pyrola grandiflora, Vacci- 

 nium uliginosum, Polyganum Islandicum, Salix herbacea, 

 S. Uva-ursi, Polytricum commune, Lycoperdon, Festuca 

 rubra, Hierochloe alpina, Carex rigida. 



3. The open country uncovered by forest, whose highest 

 growths are low shrubs or shrubby, stunted forms of trees, 

 and which are more or less continuously carpeted with 

 Arctic plants of many kinds, is called the tundra. It is 

 the formation that will be most often met with by the voy- 



