20 CARL SKOTTSBERG, (Schwed. Südpolar-Exp. 
On the beach outszde the tussock, scattered individuals of Deschampsia, Phleum 
and Festuca were met with. 
May Cove and north part of Bore Valley. 
The general distribution of the tussock has been described above; the carpet 
extends back from the cove, covering the rounded hills but generally avoiding the 
depressions between them. The finest individuals grows on the shingles and reach 
a height of 1—ı.; m. (Plate 3, 4.) Acaena adscendens is abundant along the edge 
and is accompanied by some species of Tortula. On dead tussocks are extensive 
patches of mosses and scattered individuals of Acaena tenera. 
Brachythecium subpilosum Tortula robusta 
Bryum lamprocarpum Webera pulvinata 
Pogonatum alpinum Cephalosia varians 
Polytrichum strictum Lepidozia chordulifera 
Tortula fillaris Lophocolea köppensis 
» monolca Lophosia Floerkei. 
With Polytrichum was found Cladonia sguamosa. 
On the shingles and stones near the water: Colobanthus crassifohius and subu- 
latus, Bryum lamprocarpum, Rhisocarpon geographicum. 
These examples may be found sufficient. I will only append a list of cryptogams, 
noted by me together with Poa and Acaena in Royal Bay, from where WILL de- 
scribed the association in question: 
Bartramia patens f. er Webera cruda 
Pogonatum alpinum f. 
Polytrichum strictum var. 
Tortula robusta Lophozia Floerkei. 
We have seen above, that peatforming mosses, such as Pogonatum alpinum and 
Polytrichum strictum thrive well in the Poa-association. Where a brook comes 
down through it, the tussocks recede from the water, and mighty cushions of the 
mosses close together and in parts encroach over the tussocks, so that a strugglie 
is going on between them. This we could observe round our camp in May Cove, 
where the mosses, for reasons unknown to me, at present seem to be gaining ground. 
The same thing was observed in Royal Bay, in both cases the peat-forming mosses 
were Pogonatum alpinum typicum and f. austrogeorgicum and Polytrichum strictum 
v. alpestre. Some lichens grow in the bogs, in Royal Bay I noted 
Cladonia sguamosa Ochrolechia tartarea 
Leptogium tremelloides Parmelia enteromorpha 
Sphaerophoron coralloides. 
