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rather poor in plant life were it not that their ledges are apt to be used 

 as a rookery where millions of fulmar petrels breed. Thus the slopes 

 below become abundantly manured, and both the slopes of limestone 

 debris and the inner parts of the foreland are covered with a dense ver- 

 dure formed, for the greater parl, of mosses but also of flowering plants. 

 On the southern side the foreland consists mostly of limestone debris, 

 on the northern, to a considerable extent of clay also. Here the vege- 

 tation is, as usually in the clay-plains, rather open, and consists chiefly 

 of flowering plants. In the foreland there are also some shallow ponds, 

 encircled by the usual rim of mosses with a few higher plants strewn in. 



On the surface of the snowdrifts lying in the ravines, and in the 

 upper part of the slopes, ''red snow" appeared in greater abundance than 

 I have seen anywhere else; and in the rivulets, on inundated ground 

 and in the ponds many algae, especieally blue-green ones, were growing 

 Dr. BRYHN has given an account of the mosses (Bryophyta, pp. 245, 

 249251), and it may therefore be enough to point out that he has found 

 not less than 50 species in my collection from this locality. 



The flowering plants noted or collected at Cape Vera are: Dryas 

 integrifolia, Saxifraga oppositifolia (3843). S. flagellaris, S. nivalis 

 3830), 5. cernua, S. groenlandica (3846), Draba alpina (3836, 3841), 

 D. alpina var. glacialis (3826), D. subcapitata (3829), Cochlearia offi- 

 cinalis var. groenlandica (3841), Papaver radicatum with f. Hartia- 

 num (3828), Ranunculus sulphur ens, Cerastium alpinum (3824), Stel- 

 laria longipes (3850), Alsina verna (3837), Oxyria digyna, Salix arc- 

 tica, Juncus biglumis, Festuca ovina var. supina (3839), Poa abbre- 

 viata (3840), P. cenisia (and f. prolifera), Glyceria distans (4016). 

 Catabrosa algida (3838), Alopecurus alpinus (3825). I may, of course, 

 have overlooked some species or other, but I was especially struck by 

 the absence of such common plants as f. inst, Pedicularis hirsuta, and 

 I also sought in vain for Eriophom and Carices. 



6. East of the large glacier west of Cape Hawes. 



During our stay here, July 17, 1902, I was chiefly occupied in dred- 

 ging, but I could easily see that this place would not yield in any case 

 more than a few of the most common species such as Saxifraga op- 

 positifolia, Papaver radicatum, Draba alpina, Cerastium alpinum, 

 etc., which were growing in an open clay-field below the cliffs. 



