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inland ; but the results were less than I had hoped, partly because the 

 flora was exceedingly poor, and partly because a disproportionately long 

 time was taken up in rowing from place to place with the heavy, 

 deeply-laden boat. Among the algas, of which the vegetation appeared 

 mainly to consist, may be named : Laminar m, Alarm, Pliyllophora 

 interrupted, Halosaccion sp., Chcetomorpha sp. Other species were only 

 found in solitary individuals, except where Lithothamnia were common. 

 These, however, according to Conservator Foslie, who has the calci- 

 ferous algae for determination, belong to only a few species. At a 

 couple of places I also found Lithothamnia in great numbers, in a 

 sub-fossilized condition, together with the ordinary sub-fossilized shells, 

 Saxicava rugosa, Mya truncata, etc. 



The northern part of North Kent was also visited during this 

 boating trip, the entire harvest of phanerogams from there amounting 

 to twenty-four species. A number of cryptogams were also collected. 



After our return to Gaasef jord I visited two bird-rocks at the outer 

 part of the fjord, and found, particularly on one at Ytre Eide, 

 a very vigorous phanerogamous vegetation, which, however, was not 

 very varied in species. In addition to this was a thick carpet of mosses, 

 among them Bryum capillare a foot deep.* The collection of crypto- 

 gams may possibly contain one or two things of interest. On July 22 

 I returned on board, after which short excursions were made in our 

 immediate neighbourhood, where, however, there was little of interest to 

 be found. Notwithstanding that a rather low temperature set in as 

 early as August 12 and that a sheet of snow of some thickness for a 

 time covered the ground, it was possible to continue the excursions 

 until the beginning of September. 



As we were unable to get out of the fjord that autumn, we were 

 forced to remain another winter there, of which, in this connection, 

 there is nothing to be said. 



In the spring of 1902 I had an opportunity of going a journey up 

 the west coast into Baumann Fjord. It was, however, still too early 

 (the end of May and beginning of June) to make very comprehensive 

 observations or collections, the ground being still covered with snow. 

 The chief result, therefore, came to consist of Tertiary plant-fossils, 

 which were found in large quantities in an interior fjord-branch. 



The summer began earlier this year than the two previous ones, and 

 was unusually warm. Saxifraga oppositifolia showed its first blooms on 

 June 7, and before the end of the month twenty-five species were seen 

 in flower, a greater number than in either of the preceding years at the 

 same time. 



* This moss, like Sphagnum and others, is used by the Eskimo us wicks for their 

 train-oil lamps. 



