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dried up, weathered individuals of a Salix (species indeter- 

 minable) lying closely adpressed to the ground. The stems 

 had a very irregular section, by the ground they are 6,8cm 

 in compass and have abt. 100 year-rings. The biggest among 

 them may have covered abt. 2 m"^ when in life, most were 

 still so firmly rooted that it required some exertion to lift them 

 from the ground. The root was not decayed. The highly 

 bilateral arrangement of the stems, without considerable upright 

 branches or rests of such, suggests that they have been decumbent 

 individuals which have lifted their year-shoots only 15 — 25 cm 

 above the ground. The most remarkable feature about these 

 Salices is that we did not find anywhere on the localities living 

 Sa/eaî-individuals of a corresponding size. The only place 

 where I did note such a one is at the North-eastern bay, 

 where an espalier reached Im in height and l,.5m in length 

 up an erratic boulder. 



Southwards, the mountains of the Liverpool Land rise to 

 a rather even, slightly undulating table-land ending at last in Cape 

 Tobin and Cape Hope. Its surface is, as mentioned by Koch 

 (Med. 0. Grl. XXVII, p. 293), snowless and covered with boulders, 

 the surface being very frost-blasted as well. The vegetation is 

 exceedingly scarce. I followed the coast, in a distance of abt. 

 1 mile , from the middle of Hurry Inlet till Rosenvinge Bugt 

 when, on the 11*'^ of August, I was ashore to search for musk- 

 oxen, but only noted down the following species: 



Vaccinium uUginosum, Salix arctica, Cassiope tetragona, 

 C. hypnoides, Saxifraga oppositifolia, Cardamine bellidi folia, 

 Luzula confusa, Amhlystegiuni exannulatmn, A. turgescens, 

 A. Sendtneri, Cephalozia bicuspidata v. cavifolia, Anthelia ni- 

 valis, Jungermannia alpestris, Cetraria islandica, Stereocauloti, 

 Cladoniae with more lichens. 



Along the sea-coast, which I followed when returning, were 

 found here and there sandy or clayey flats covered with Calama- 

 grostis arundinacea and neglecta, Trisetum, Poa pratensis and 



