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scanty list which follows below. The densest vegetation was found along 

 some small brooks and around some shallow ponds near the shore where, 

 however, mosses decidedly formed the most prominent constituent of the 

 verdure. The flowering plants obtained were: Saxifraga cernua (2629), 

 S. groenlandica (2632), S. nivalis, S. oppositifolia, Potentilla pulchella, 

 Dry as integrifolia, Draba alpina (2630), D. subcapitata (2627), Cock- 

 learia officinalis var. groenlandica (2628), Papaver radicatum (2626), 

 Cerastium alpinum, Stellaria longipes, Alsine verna (2623), A. Rossii 

 (2631), Salix arctica, Glyceria Vahliana (2657), G. distans var. vagi- 

 nata {2625), Catabrosa algida (2624), Juncus biglumis. Mr. SCHEI 

 found besides Saxifraga stellaris var. comosa and S. rivularis. No 

 Carices or Eriophora wore found in the ponds. 



The list of mosses (BRYHN. Bryophyta, p. 204 205) contains 33 spe- 

 cies. The most prominent among them were Tortula ruralis and the large 

 Hypna, such as H. uncinatutn, H. turgescens, H. Bambergeri. The 

 lichens and algae are not yet determined, but I may mention that blue- 

 green algae were found in great masses in the ponds and also form- 

 ing layers on moist stones and clay. Along the margin of one of the 

 ponds lay, on a long stretch, a layer of organic remains, principally 

 blue-green algae and diatoms, in a halfdried condition and from 10 to 

 15 cm. thick. In one of the rivulets I also found, growing on stones 

 and lying loose, an Enteromorpha which I have previously found in 

 several places in Ellesmereland. It belongs, as far as I have as yet 

 had any opportunity of ascertaining, to an undescribed species. 



5. Cape Vera. 



This place was first visited by Mr. SCHEI, July 22, 1901 and after- 

 wards by myself, July 14 15, 1902. Cape Vera forms the end of a 

 long, pointed naze between the West Fjord and the narrow western part 

 of Jones Sound. Even as we steamed past it in August, 1900, I had 

 observed a rather dense verdure in some parts of the low foreland in 

 front of the high wall of limestone cliffs which forms the interior of the 

 ness. This mountain, the Fulmar Petrel Cliff, reaches a height of per- 

 haps 1500 feet and descends in a rather abrupt wall towards the 

 low land, intersected by numerous narrow ravines and flanked by high 

 pyramids and obelisks of limestone. On the top of the cliffs there is a 

 fairly wide neve, feeding a good-sized glacier which flows down some- 

 what further west on the north side. The cliffs are built up of the 

 same hard limestone as those, to the east, and would consequently be 



