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few ravens, and excrements of foxes and a great many tracks 

 of lemmings; a great many insects were seen visiting the 

 flowers. 



[n the low ground by Germania Harbour were found enor- 

 mous numbers oï Papaver radicatum^)] it was now in full flower 

 and so luxuriant as hardly anywhere else in Greenland; one 

 big tuft near the beach bore — beside a number of capsules 

 from 1899 — a young fruit from 1900, 38 fully developped, 

 large flowers and 34 big, black-haired buds. At the summit 

 of Hasenberg grew comparatively many white-flowered poppies, 

 many white-flowered specimens being seen as well on moist 

 ground near the harbour. 



On the numerous decumbent little bushes of Salix arctica 

 on the slopes of the stream was seen beautiful wind-erosion^); 

 the predominant wind in the valley is the northwind, in the 

 direction of the valley. 



A special character was given to the vegetation by the 

 occurrence of divers northern species, such as Saxifraga 

 flagellaris and hirculus\ the first mentioned being particularly 

 frequent; Polemonium humile with its large vividly coloured 

 flowers is known to belong to the rare constituents of the 

 Greenland-flora; it was common here, partly on the dry, naked 

 basalt-plateaus, partly in humid cracks where, on humus, it 

 formed big, luxuriant, flowery "mats". 



Taken as a whole it was the ordinary, northern insular 

 vegetation: In the hollows 6'area;-bogs, moss-bogs or combined 

 moss-Careaj-bogs; on the dry mountain slopes rocky-flat for- 

 mation^) more or less luxuriant all in proportion to exposition, 

 mouldformation etc. Considerable continuous tracts of heath- 

 moor-land we did not see in the island. 



^) We are using the same plant names as in Chr. Kruuse's above quoted 



paper (Medd. om Grønl., XXX). 

 ~) cp. truncs from Scoresby Sund mentioned and pictured by Hartz 



Medd. om Grønland, XVIII, p. 310. 



^) EiG. WлRMl^чi's "Fjældmark" (fell-fleld). 



