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flammea, P. hirsuta, Papaver radicatum, Arctostaphylos, alpina 

 Campanula rotundifolia, Saxifraga decipiens, Arnica alpina, 

 Luzula confusa, L. spicata, Poa glauca, Trisetum, Festuca 

 ovina, Equisetum variegatum and Cystopteris. 



Turner Sund. 



22 — 28 July. Owing to the ship's taking the ground in 

 Turner Sund, as mentioned by Hartz in his account of the 

 voyage (Medd. om Grønland, XXVII, p. 160) our stay in this 

 place was somewhat longer than intended. Our investigations 

 were all conducted in the Turner Island, at the narrowest 

 spot of the straits, or in the neighbourhood of the island. 



A quantity of drift-timber lay washed ashore , partly tall, 

 slim conifers, partly foliage-trees (birch?). A number of loose 

 bits of bark of pine and birch were also seen. One of the 

 trunks of the conifers bore plain marks of the axe. Also a 

 quantity of jPmcms had drifted ashore; but the sublittoral region 

 and the shallows vere totally bare of algae; on deeper water 

 the algal vegetation was, on the contrary, rich. 



A special strand-vegetation was almost totally wanting here; 

 it was represented solely by isolated specimens of Glyceria 

 vilfoidea, Stellaria humifusa and Cochlearia officinalis v. groen- 

 landica f. minor. 



On shore were seen traces of reindeer and wolf, numerous 

 lemmings, some ermines; a number of bears were killed under 

 our sojourn here ^). 



Turner Sund (Chr. Kruuse). 



The surface of the cape was slightly undulating, covered 

 by coarse gravel and strown with large erratic boulders. The 



^) The stomach contents of a shot bear appeared to consist largely of 

 leaves of Oxyria digyna, evidently the food which the bear has sought 

 ashore ; casual ingredients of the stomach contents : a little grass, a few 

 leaves of Polygonum vivipariim. Saxifraga cernua, Sax. cœspitosa, 

 Polytrichum sp. 



