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by a steep fall. The coastline is indicated by a very low (20 — 40cm 

 high) strand-wall of sand with sticks, leaves and, although 

 very sparely, algae. It is thinly covered with Glyceria distans. 

 Within, the sandy flat is low (hardly 10 cm above the level 

 of the sea at high water), nearly plane, moist (groundwater in 

 7 cm depth), with many empty watercourses, it has a very 

 scarce growth of Glyceria vilfoidea, Potentilla pulchella , Stel- 

 laria humifusa and Cochlearia groenlandica. There are abt. 

 2 metres or more between the respective tufts. Inside this 

 extensive flat is found an old beach-line where the land rises 

 to a flat 40—60 cm above the present height of the water. 

 On this flat, where the groundwater is only found in 30 — 35cm 

 depth, grows Glyceria distants, Carex ursina and Potentilla 

 fulchella, and also, in smaller numbers, Salix arctica and 

 Taraxacum phymatocarjmm. There is, on an average, 2 — 3 

 metres between the tufts, and the sand is elsewhere completely 

 bare with the exception of some small flat depressions, viz. 

 sanded-up watercourses, where the sand is namely slightly 

 greenish from algae (Confervae and Desmidiaceae). 



The individuals are strongly tuftshaped Carices and tunicate 

 Glyceriae, and leaves and stalks are covered by clay and sand- 

 dust. The surface of the sand is hard, sand drift is not seen, 

 no more are dunes; the whole surface is full of little fissures 

 and gives one the impression of being inundated in winter and 

 during the period of melting. 



Within this flat the land rises gently to abt. 1 m's height 

 above the level of the sea; only here and there are seen the 

 half obliterated vestiges of an old terrace-border. It is covered 

 with Salix groenlandica in great specimens together with some 

 few Alopecurus alpinus] here also are great open intervals 

 between the tufts. 



This So//Æ;-flat rises evenly inwards till a height of abt. 

 2 m above the level of the sea and becomes more dry. The 

 surface of the sand is now loose, it drifts. 



