H. G. SIMMONS. [SEC. ARCT. EXP. FRAM 



radicatum (3841), Alsine verna (3837), Festuca ovina (3839), Poa ab- 

 brei'iata (3840), Catabrosa algida (3838), and two mosses (3842): Camp- 

 tothecium nitens and Brachythecium salebrosum (cf. BRYHN 1 , Bryo- 

 phyta, p. 245). 



2.. Point in Viks Fjord. 



The place was visited by the same party on July 27, 1901, and 

 Mr. SCHEI here noted Saxifraga nivalis, S. Hirculus, Polygonum mm 

 parum, Dryas integrifolia, Cassiope tetragona, and some grasses. 

 Vegetation scarce. 



3. Bottom of Viks Fjord. 



Visited by the same party, July 29, 1901. Mr. SCHEI noted about 

 the vegetation here that it was very scanty. Around some lakelets in 

 the low land there was a vegetation of grasses (Carices or Eriophora?) 

 and on the dry ledges a few flowering dicotyledoneous plants, the species 

 of which were, however, not noted. Mr. SCHEI found the cause of this 

 poverty in the geological nature of the soil which is formed only of the 

 debris of the same heavy, brownish limestone which in Ellesmereland 

 also formed the poorest of all soils. At the last mentioned locality this 

 limestone was interlaid with argillaceous slate and marlslate and there- 

 fore had made possible the development of a somewhat richer vegetation. 



4. Low ness in the outer part of West Fjord. 



After leaving our winter-quarters in Harbour Fjord we anchored at 

 this place, August 11, 1900. Our stay was, however, too short to allow 

 me time for more than a very brief trip over the nearest part of the 

 low ness, which was formed solely of limestone of the same poor quality 

 as that which generally builds up both those parts of N. Devon and the 

 outlier parts of the Ellesmereland coast opposite. As usual, this soil of 

 the limestone ledges and debris of the same material proved utterly poor, 

 and 1 could not manage to visit the cliffs at the point where the rooke- 

 ries of gulls and guillemots doubtless formed a somewhat richer field. 



The area 1 traversed certainly, even had there been better time for 

 its inspection, would have yielded little more than is shown by the 



1 N. BRYHX, Bryophyta in itinere polari norvugorum secundo collecta. Rep. sec. 

 norw. arct. exp., II, No. 11, Kristiania 1906, (quoted: "BRYHN, Bryophyta"). 



