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It is always eaten au naturel and the natives do not care for it 

 when it has been cooked. As food it is yet of the greatest impor- 

 tance in spring when the supply of seal-meat has been used up. 

 Then it is gathered with the hand through the holes and cracks 

 in the ice, which always are formed around skerries and rocks 

 by the changing rising and sinking of the ice (tidal action). 

 Together with the fucaceae Agarum Tumeric Laminaria 

 groenlandica and the Florid Rhodymenia palmata the mussels are 

 called «Strandting» and have often before the beginning of the 

 colonization saved the inhabitants from perishing with hunger, 

 and they still play a considerable part in the winter diet. 



North of the inhabited district I only remember to have 

 seen it once at about 66°30'N. A few and" small specimens were 

 here found in a crevice situated between tide-marks. They 

 were at once devoured by the hungry members of the expedi- 

 tion. I have neither noticed it on the old tent-and dwelling- 

 places and doubt that it occurs here in greater numbers. 



Mytilus lives rather freely, it is rarely found as a hold 

 for Laminarians, though it occurs in the Laminaria woods. It 

 likes clear streaming water and avoids decidedly all places where 

 greater quantities of freshwater run into the sea. I have never 

 found it in the inner end of the fjords where the water is made 

 clayey by the glacier rivers. 



It is not seldom found on the bird-islands whither it has 

 been taken by brooding birds.» 



Dacrydium vitreum (HolböU) Möller. 



1900. Cape Dalton 9 — И fms. Fine clay -with small stones 



3 specim. and 3 valves. 



1900. Huny-Inlet 10 — Clay 1 — (empty). 



1900. Hurry-Inlet 50 — Clay with stones 



20 specimens. 



1900. Fleming-Inlet 118 — Clay 1 — (dead) and 1 valve. 



1900. Forsblad -Fjord 50 — Clay with stones 1 specimen. 



1900. Forsblad-Fjord 90-50 — Clay with stones 



24 specim. (5 empty) and 3 valv. 

 1891— 92. 74° 17' N. 15° 20' W. 127 — Clay with stones 1 specimen. 



