HERMAN G. SIMMONS. 



of the lowlying ground; and heath-like vegetation covers a con- 

 siderable part of the foreland an valley-bottoms especially along 

 Buchanan Strait. 



Unfortunately even now dredging was entirely omitted as I 

 could not get a crew for that purpose, and therefore the marine 

 flora of Rice Strait (probably the richest we met with) is almost 

 entirely unknown. 



On Aug. 4th 1899 we left Fram Harbour and anchored 

 for a second time in Foulkefjord on the evening of the 11th. 

 During the night 1 made an excursion, visiting chiefly the same 

 parts of the north shore as in the previous year. 



Reindeer Point is built up by primary rock alone, but the 

 hillrange above is formed also of younger strata. The ledges of 

 the point are mainly covered only with very httle soil and accor- 

 dingly only a thin and often stunted vegetation grows there. 

 Salix arctica is very prominent among the plants that have 

 settled down in the crevices and on the narrow shelves of the 

 rock. Some broader, dry, gravel-covered, terraces were in habited 

 almost entirely by lichens, or in addition to these by a few 

 phanerogams such as Saxifraga oppositifolia, S. tricuspidata, 

 S. caespitosa, Silene acaulis, Carex nardina, Elyna spicata. 

 Where the hillocks of Reindeer Point slope down towards Etah 

 even the sandy soil was covered by a denser vegetation, in 

 which Hesperis Pallasii was especially conspicuous. This 

 species also grew abundently on the sandhills on the other side 

 of Etah in company with Erigeron compositus, Potentillae, 

 Chamaenerion latifolium, Draba hirta, Saxifraga tricuspi- 

 data, Taraxacum phymatocarpum, Trisetum suhspicatum, 

 Festuca ovina and other plants. 



The slopes above Etah are thickly covered with a vegetation 

 consisting almost entirely of grasses interspersed with such plants 

 as Arnica alpina, Pedicularis capitata, P. hirsuta, Dryas 

 integrifolia, Saxifraga nivalis, etc., or of Cassiope tetragona, 

 together with Myrtillus uliginosa var. microphylla, Empetrum 



