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CARL SKOTTSBERG, (Schwed. Südpolar-Exp. 
Low moraine tongue between the Geikie and Lyell glaciers. 
This is very like the former station, but the vegetation is much more stunted. 
The interior part of the West Fjord is exposed to terrible gales, which sweep down 
from the glaciers. All the plain is moistened by the glacier-water from the mountain 
behind. There are large patches of gravel lying bare. Only towards the beach is 
there closer vegetation: 
cop. Acaena adscendens sol. Azra antarctica 
spars. Festuca erecta » Galium antarcticum 
Phleum alpinum » Ranunculus biternatus. 
Bartramia leucocolea HAypnum uneinatum 
> oreadella Tortula rubra 
Hypnum sarmentosum Webera inflexa. 
With this exception the vegetation has the character of a Polytrichum-tundra: 
spars. Azra antarctica sol. Acaena adscendens 
»  Festuca erecta » Colobanthus crassifolius 
» Phleum alpinum. 
Polytrichum piliferum Pseudodistichium austrogeorgicum. 
Cladonia coccifera Stereocaulon alpinum 
Psoroma hypnorum Stieta Freycinetii. 
4. The swamps. 
With the heavy snowfall in South Georgia and the slow melting of the/snow, 
the soil in all depressions readily gets saturated with water and never has any oppor- 
tunity of drying up. Round streams and lakes also swamps occur. Such places 
are inhabited by the Rostkovia-association, named after the plant, which, with its 
brownish hue, gives the characteristic dark tinge to such spots and makes them visible 
from a great distance. The following examples may prove sufhicient to illustrate the 
appearance of the swamps. 
Jason Harbour. Transition between tundra-meadow and swamp. 
soc. Rostkovia magellanica spars. Ranunculus biternatus 
greg. Acaena adscendens sol. Festuca erecta 
Funcus scheuchzerioides > Phleum alpinum. 
