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was not wliolly absent, but tlit? mosses and liclions of wliicli it is elsewhere composed are about as 

 feeldy developed as jwssible, and instead of forming a continuous covering they occur in suiall 

 separate tufts, leaving the ground between tbeni raw and bare as that of a newly ploughed liekl. 

 The phanerogamous plants, both on the lowest grounds and the slopes and hilltops as far as seen, 

 were in the same severely repressed condition and as sparsely planted in tufts an inch or two in 

 diameter, with about froui one to three feet of naked soil bi^tween tlieui. Some portions of the 

 coast, however, farther south presented a greenish hue as seen from the ship at a distance of eight 

 or ten miles, owing no doubt to vegetation growiug under less unfavorable (tonditions. 

 From an area, of about half a square mile the following plants were collected : 



Suxifini/ii JteijeUaiis, Willil. 



stellarh, L. var. curnina, Poir. 



Hileneflora, Steiiib. 



hieracifolia, Waldsl. & Kit. 



rivular'M, L. var. liypi:ihoiia, H 



bronchialis, L. 



serpi/Ui/uliu, Puish 

 Anemoiir parciftora, MiiUx. 

 Papaver niidicaulr, L. 

 Draba alpina, L. 

 Cochleria officinalis, L. 

 Artemisia horealis, Willd. 

 Sanioxmia fi-iyidii, Hook. 

 Saussiirea monticola, Richards. 



Senecio frigidns, Le.ss. 

 f'ottiiiilta nivca, L. 



fnijida, Vill.? 

 Armeria macrocarpa, Piiish. 



ralyaris, Willd. 

 SteVaria longipes, GoUlie, var. Etlwardaii T. & O. 

 Cerastium alpiniim, L. 

 (lyiniiaiKba Stelltri, Chaiu A Sclilecht. 

 Sulij- puluris, Wall). 

 Luzulu hyperborea, R. hr. 

 Poa arctica, R. Br. 

 Aira caspitoaa, L. var. Arctica. 

 Alopecurus alpinus, .Smith. 



