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the shallow water without, but washed ashore upon the sand 

 was one specimen of a narrow-leaved ^os^era тагша; notwith- 

 standing an eager search I didn't succeed in finding any more, 

 nor did I find the plant growing anywhere. Although the 

 "Antarctic" passed the spot twice and we ourselves in the 

 boat once, it is httle likely that it comes from here, the more 

 because it was not single leaves which might have been used 

 in packing, but a specimen with parts of stems. I therefore 

 think it probable that the plant grows somewhere in Scoresby 

 Sund in small numbers. 



Again we had, in order to come ashore close west of 

 Cape Hooker, to pass half the night in the boat away on the 

 shallow, which is a very disagreeable thing to do in rainy 

 weather, and not until about 3 o'clock did we get ashore and 

 got our tent pitched against the rain. The ground around 

 this tent place was considerably more barren than that sur- 

 rounding "Vandreblokken", and it corresponds peculiarly well 

 to the description which Hartz has given (Med. o. Grl. XVIII^ 

 p. 126-132). 



Here was found mossfield on clay, principally Anthelia- 

 covering with Peltigera aptosa, Silène acaulis, Cassiope hyp- 

 noides, Oxyria digyna, Salix herbacea, Salix arctica, Luzula 

 confusa, Carex lagopiyw, Trisetum subspicatum, Poa alpina- 

 f. vivipara, Festuca ovina and in single patches Festuca 

 rubra. All were low and stunted. Alternating with these 

 was Cassiope-]\QQ.\h of 5 cm height, stony plains without any 

 vegetation, and sandflats with lichen covering or a thin growth 

 of Polytrichum juniperinum, Luzula confusa, Trisetum, Oxyria,. 

 Salix arctica v. groenlandica, Cerastium alpinum, and Equisetum 

 arvense; all dwarfed. 



Wherever the heath, which besides Cassiope consisted of 

 Empetrum, Arctostaphylos alpina, Vaccinium, and Salix arctica v. 

 groenlandica, was adjacent to the stony and sandy plains it was 

 dissolved into separate tufts with bare sand between, and beyond 



