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«everal other herbaceous plants were added to these: Arnica, 

 Pedicularis hirsuta, Stellaria longipes, Armeria, Luzula spicata, 

 Pyrola gratidiflora; mosses and lichens make out a consider- 

 able part of the Dryas-heath. 



On the south-side of a low gneiss-knoll was a rudimental 

 herbaceous slope. The birch rose cautiously to Vs m above 

 the ground, Taraxacum croceum and phymatocarpum, Alsine 

 biflora, Draba repens were flowering among decumbent, not 

 yet flowering bushes of Salix arctica v. groeyilandica^ the leaves 

 of which were not fully developed either — so lately the snow 

 had melted away from this locality. 



Point Constable (N. Hartz). 



On Aug. 10^^ 1 went on a tramp across the considerable 

 delta, which is crossfurrowed by numerous more or less con- 

 siderable rivulets. 



The lowest tracts were occupied by salt-marsh. The 

 bottom here was clayey ooze, and had often a reddish tint. Carex 

 subspathacea formed a dense but low "grass carpet" (4 — 5 cm 

 high) with a straggling intermixture of Stellaria Jmmifusa and 

 Glyceria vilfoidea. Numerous irregularly shaped water-holes 

 {"Lo'er") with steep margins 8 — 10 cm high, exactly as in the 

 salt-marshes at home. Upon the bottoms of the holes, which 

 were filled with water, lay red ochre films, below these black 

 mud of at least 20 cm' thickness. 



The surface of the salt-marsh was often slightly tufted; 

 the small tufts were particularly vigorous specimens of Carex 

 subspathacea, which would attain a height of up to 10 cm. 



Inside the salt-marsh followed sand-drift grounds with a 

 vegetation similar to the one described from Rlitdalen; Cala- 

 magrostis neglecta and Alopecurus alpinus, which constituted 

 but an unessential part of the vegetation in the sand-drift 

 grounds of Klitdalen, were common here. 



