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Lebesby, KjoUefjord, Mehavn, Gamvik, Omgang, Finkong- 

 kjeilen, Berlevaag, Syltefjord, Havningberg, Vardo, Kiberg, 

 Ekkero, Vadso, Nyborg, Bugonæs, Kirkenæs, Kjelmo, Pas- 

 vig and Smaastrommen at Jakobselv. It is, however, to be 

 remarked, that the stay at some of these places has been 

 only for a few hours, at others for a couple of days. Much 



time is lost in moving by boat and steamer from place to 

 place. As some algæ disappear early in the summer, and 

 others only at that time bear reproductive organs, I had to 

 visit the western as well as the most eastern part of the 

 district as early in the season as possible, and afterwards 

 to go back later in the summer to the same place, or an 

 adjacent one. Several interesting observations have been 

 made as to the changeableness of the vegetation from year 

 to year at one and the same locality. 



On account of the considerable expenses caused by a 

 travel to and a stay of some months in Finmarken, especi- 

 ally East-Finmarken, it has been necessary to limit the dred- 

 ging so as to get only a passable survey of the vegetation 

 in the sublitoral and elitoral regions. Farther I have as a 

 rule dredged by myself, but that is, of course, much troub- 

 lesome and often also waste of time, particularly along the 

 open coast with a heavy setting of the current. A more 

 thorough sifting of at least the sublitoral zone would, no 

 doubt, bring to light many interesting forms and give a het- 

 ter general view of the biology of the marine Flora in this 

 part of the arctic region. However, dredging is difficult or 

 almost impossible in localities where Alariæ and Laminariæ 

 clothe the bottom in greater abundance, and that is the ca- 

 se almost everywhere along the rocky and exposed part of 

 . the coast. They form here large submarine «woods» com- 

 posed principally of Lmninaria hyperhorea, L. digitata and 

 Alarim, 6—12 feet high with thick and vigorous stems, or 

 L saccharina with a lamina of 10 feet or more in lengthé 



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