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thing the flora is rather poor and further under the circumstan- 

 ces a disproportionately long time had to be spent in rowing 

 from one place to another with the heavily-laden boat. Among 

 the species that seemed principally to contribute to the vegeta- 

 tion of the sea may be named : Laminariae, Alariae, Phyllo- 

 phora interrupta, Halosaccion sp., Chaetomorpha sp. Of other 

 species only occasional specimens were found. In some localities 

 Lithothamnia predominated, but as Mr. Foslie, who has got 

 the collections, has informed me, there are only a few species 

 among them. 



In two localities also I found Lithothamnia in a subfossil 

 state in great numbers together with specimens of the common 

 subfossil shells such as Saxicava rugosa, Mya truncata and 

 others. 



During this boattrip we also visited the northern part of 

 North Kent, where I collected or noted all the flowering plants 

 that could be found, amounting only to 24 species. 



After returning to the Goose fjord I visited two breeding- 

 places of the glaucous gull and found especially at one of them 

 a luxuriant vegetation, that still did not yield any new species 

 to the flora as far as flowering plants are concerned, of mosses 

 there probably may be some interesting forms in the collections 

 I made there. On July 22nd I came back to the ship and during 

 the following weeks made short excursions in the neighbourhood, 

 where however little of greater interest was to be found. 



Although a rather low temperature had set in already on 

 the 12th of August and a not inconsiderable layer of snow 

 covered the ground for a time, the botanical excursions could 

 still be continued until the beginning of September. 



As we did not get out of the fjord that autumn, we had to 

 pass a second winter there of which there is very little to be 

 said in this connection. 



In 1902 the summer began earlier than in the two precee- 

 ding years and was unusually warm. Saxifraga oppositifolia 



