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nigrum, Salix arctica and some grasses, mosses etc. Small 

 patches of boggy ground both here and on Reindeer Point 

 were covered by a mat of mosses, among which a few phane- 

 rogams had settled. In such places I noticed among other plants 

 Eriophorum Scheuchseri, E. angustifolium, Saxifraga flagel- 

 laris, S. rivularis, Wahlhergella apetala, Ranunculus sulphu- 

 reus, R. pygmaeus, Catabrosa algida. 



Further on begins a talus of great boulders among which 

 millions of little auks breed. Consequently one finds here a 

 very rich soil, and the vegetation is more luxuriant than any 

 other I have seen north of Disco. Alopecurus alpinus here 

 reaches a height of V2 m. and grows thickly enough to give a 

 green aspect to the whole slope. 



Another territory with a very rich and luxuriant vegetation 

 is the clayish ground in the immediate vicinity of the old Eskimo- 

 village of Etah. Besides Alopecurus and Glyceria distans f., 

 Wahlbergella triflora, Papaver radicatum and a variety of 

 Arabis Hookeri were very abundant there and also Draba 

 hirta, Saxifraga cernua, Cerastium alpinum, Stellaria longi- 

 pes, Oxyria digyna, Taraxacum phymatocarpum flourished. 



Of the 44 species enumerated in Harts list as found in 

 Foulkefjord, I have discovered about 35 possibly 40, if my 

 supposition as to the meaning of the names he uses is right. 

 Some of his statements seem very doubtful, especially that 

 Eriophorum vaginatum does grow here (and at Prøven) as this 

 species is found nowhere else either in Greenland, in East 

 Arctic America or in the islands. As for the statement that 

 Pedicularis lapponica is common in Foulkefjord (and also in 

 Hayes Sound) it seems very improbable that this can be the 

 case as no other observer has seen it there. 



My list of species from Foulkefjord comprises about 70 

 numbers ; among these as far as I can find the following are addi- 

 tions to the flora of Northwest Greenland; Arabis Hookeri, 



