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On a dry southern slope, built up of hard quartzitic 

 schists without any mould was found the xerophile coppice vege- 

 tation formerly described by me from the inmost ramifications of 

 Scoresby Sund. AU the vegetation was utterly dried up; large 

 fine carpets of Betula nana, Salix arctica var. groenlandica, 

 Vaccinium uliginosum, Rhododendron lapponicum, Arctostaphy- 

 los alpina and Empetrum nigrum. The birch-trunks were up 

 to 1,5 cm thick, 50 — 100 cm long and rose up to 25 cm above 

 the ground. Besides the common big, tuftshaped gramineæ 

 in gigantic specimens were found: Calamagrostis arundinacea, 

 Festuca rubra var. arenaria, Poa alpina and a great many other 

 herbaceous plants e. g. Campanula rotundifolia richly flowering, 

 Tofieldia coccinea (which was found already at Forsblads Fjordby 

 Nathorst) partly with white flowers, Lesquerella arctica, Rumex 

 acetosella, Melandrium affine, M. triflorum. Silène acaulis, 

 Draba alpina, Saxifraga nivalis, S. hieracifolia, Pedicularis 

 lapponica, P. flammea, P. hirsuta. Arnica alpina, Elyna Bel- 

 lardi, Carex nardina, Hierochloa alpina, Trisetum subspicatum, 

 Poa glauca and Cystopteris fragilis, fully corresponding to 

 Ddséns' description of the copses (Gebüsch or Gestrüpp) of 

 Kjerulfs Fjord. 



Here were exquisitely fine, marine, clayey and sandy terraces ; 

 on the clayey flats were often seen large spots devoid of vegeta- 

 tion. I wonder whether presence of sodic chloride here hinders 

 the forthcoming of vegetation (cf. my observations on the south- 

 coasts of Jameson Land (Medd. om Grønland, XVIII, p. 130). 

 On a gravelly marine terrace-flat abt. 50 m above the level of 

 the sea grew Dryas octopetala ^integrifolia, a rare plant in these 

 regions of Greenland. 



Outside the valley was a small narrow lagune with a low 

 clayey-sandy wall on which grew Halianthus and Stellaria 

 hmnifusa. On the beach numerous specimens of Fucus were 

 thrown ashore. 



Further up the inlet we landed for a few hours' stay 



