24 CARL SKOTTSBERG, (Schwed. Südpolar-Exp. 
This is the association most rich in phanerogamous species. The Acaena is 
very frequently accompanied by Zortula robusta, which, however, is covered by the 
former and hardly visible. Also the Galzom is quite hidden. 
Higher up, where the incline of the slope becomes gradually less, the grasses 
" grow closer together; here and there appears a patch of mosses and lichens: 
greg. Acaena adscendens 
cop. Festuca erecta spars. Arra antarctica 
Galium antarcticum Phleum alpinumn. 
Blindia Skottsbergii Pogonatum alpinum 
Conostomum australe > 2 f. nanocephalum 
Dicranum aciphyllum (small cushions, 
Exodokidium subsymmetricum (wet Rhacomitrium austrogeorgicum 
places) » Willi 
Leioscyphus Skottsbergü. 
Cladonia degenerans Cladonia sguamosa 
» rangiferina Sticta Freycinetiü. 
This vegetation continues until, at a height of about one hundred meters, the 
mountain rises more steeply, for here tongues of the closed, grassy tundra stretch 
upwards between the beds of stone debris. Between the stones grow solitary 
plants, viz.: 
Acaena adscendens Galium antarcticum 
» tenera Polystichum mohrtioides var. plicatum; 
on the stones: 
Neuropogon melazxanthum Parmelia enteromorpha 
Sphaerophoron coralloides. 
North side of Bore valley, round May Cove. (Plate 2, 5:2). Between the 
rounded hillocks, which were described above, we find everywhere where there is 
dry ground a tundra of the following composition: 
soc.—greg. Festuca erecta spars.—sol. Acaena tenera 
cop. Acaena adscendens Aira antarctica 
Phleum alpinum. 
