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depressions were ;ilmosl l)are of vegetation on account of the 

 long standing snow-covering and tlie too great liuniidily. Tiie 

 low, flat summits of the elevated lines were covered by a scanty 

 carpet of Aufhelia together with scattered tufts of Grimniia 

 ericoides and, at large intervals, some single phanerogams more 

 or less influenced by the north wind, which is predominant here. 

 More conspicuous was Ranunculus glacialis, which was in full 

 bloom (Fig. 2). The flowers are marked sunflowers turning their 

 corollas after the place of the sun in the sky. The flowers 

 were white, as a rule ; we saw, however, several reddish corols. 

 Together with Ranunculus glacialis were found a few dwarf 

 specimens of Cochlearia officinalis v. groenlandica f. minor, 

 Sagina nivalis, Silène acaulis, Potentilla maculata, Polygonum 

 viviparum, Salix herbacea, S. arctica, Fhippsia, Luzula confusa, 

 Sa xi frag a decipiens and S. rividaris. 



A little more to the westward, by the points of a little 

 bay opposite to the cape, I ascended a 700 m high mountain 

 (exposition SSE.). The beach and the low foreland consisted 

 of basalt gravel, was ploughed by wild brooks, and was covered 

 by very poor rocky-flat formation, chiefly formed by mosses, 

 especially Anthelia julacea, which covered large moist patches. 

 Of other mosses were collected here: 



Polytrichum stricfum, Philonotis fontana, Bartramia crispa, 

 Conostomum tetragonum, Bryum cirratum, B. archangelicum, 

 Pohlia commutata, P. proligera, P. nutans and v. sphagtie- 

 torum, Sphaerocephalus turgidus, P. cruda, Torhda ruralis, 

 Dicranum neglectum, Swartzia montana, Ditrichum flexicaule, 

 Grimmia ericoides, Amblystegium aduncum, A. sarmetitosum, 

 Campylium hispidulum, Stereodon revolutus, Isopterygium 

 nitidum v. pulchellum, Cephalozia albescens v. islandica, C. 

 bicuspidata and v. cavifolia, C. divaricata f. elongata, C. striatula, 

 Blepharostoma trichophyllum, Jungermannia socia, J. ventricosa, 

 J. minuta, Cesia concinnata and Prasanthus suecicus. 



Between the mosses were, here and there, single specimens 



