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on Aug. 29*^; here was a low Betula nana coppice (or perhaps 

 rather Betula nana heath) with numerous powerful specimens 

 of Elyna Bellardi and other tall, graminaceous plants: Calama- 

 grostis arundinacea, Poa glauca, Carex nardina, Aira caespitosa 

 f. alpina, Trisetum subspicatum, Festuca rubra and fruitbearing 

 Vaccinium idiginosiwt, a rather luxuriant, but very uniform 

 vegetation. 



At Kingua in Forsblads Fjord we stayed from the evening 

 of August 29**^ to the next day at noon; we had our tent-place 

 for the night at the very head of the inlet. The temperature 

 of the air at nine o'clock in the evening was still 9° C. The 

 vegetation here was powerful and well developed, but very little 

 peculiar, namely Cassiope-healh and Carex-bog. 



Here were found Fedicularis lapponica and Tofieldia palu- 

 stris. Considerable ice-free land was found between the inland- 

 ice and Kingua of the inlet. 



Canning Land (Chr. Kruuse). 



On Sept. P^ we landed on Canning Land in the vicinity 

 of Cape Fletcher. The mountains are steep and, in long 

 tracts of land, descend vertically into the ocean without any 

 mountain foot, but outside a pass were found huge cones of 

 débris. Weathering and frost-bursting are quick, and the light 

 eruptive rocks which formed the pass and the mountains to 

 the east of this were greatly corroded. The bottom is not very 

 stabile, and is at present lacking moisture. The sea margin is 

 made up of rolled blocks the size of a human head; there was 

 no strand- vegetation except in the shelter of a couple of mighty 

 blocks, where Halianthus peploides and Stellaria humifusa had 

 found needful space. 



On the debris-heaps were found only here and there spots 

 of 1— 2m^ with continuous vegetation, or a single individual 

 sticking out between the blocks. 1 collected the species enume- 



