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larly Potcntilla anscrina, L., which, though found further north, 

 is yet only entered in Langc's list on Vahl's authority, and was 

 not found by me elsewhere in the vicinity of Disco Bay. 



(3.) Claushavn—Lat. 69° 7' 31" N., long. 50° 55' 30" W.— 

 This commercial establishment is built on a flat, backed by hills 

 of considerable height. On this flat is a small lake, round the 

 marshy borders of which plants grow luxuriantly. This flat is 

 divided off into little glens by roches moutonnies like knolls of 

 rocks, each glen ending in a terminal moraine at the lower 

 edge, and exhibiting the same evidences of ancient glaciers. 

 Many plants are found here on this sunny flat which I did not 

 observe at Jakobshavn, only seven miles north of it across the 

 IceJJord. For Greenland, Claushavn is a sunny spot, and not 

 unpleasant. Here Epilobmm latifolium^ L., luxuriates, and 

 Lychnis apetala, L., is found gi'owing in considerable quantity 

 among the rocks behind the Colonibestyrers house. Armeria 

 vulgaris, Willd., Trisetum subspicaticm, P. B., and Juncus 

 triglumis, L., were found by me only in this locality. From 

 Il-iil-ia-min-er-suak ("the big mountain overlooking the Ice- 

 fjord "), rising to the height of 1,400 feet, can be seen the Icefjord, 

 and little lakes lying in rugged valleys, with the commencement 

 of the Tessiusak just peering out, and away beyond to the east- 

 ward the dreary stretch of the inland ice. Rhododendron lap- 

 ponicum, Stellarias, and Drabas were the plants most prominent. 

 Papaver nudicaule, the hardiest of all Arctic plants, was found here 

 long after R. lapponicum had disappeared. I visited Claushavn 

 first on the 24th June, and subsequently at various times in July, 

 and afterwards while travelling to Christianshaab in the beginning 

 of August. 



(4.) Jakobshavn— l.2.i. 69° 13' 26" N., long. 50° 55' W.— 

 This was our head-quarters for the whole of our residence 

 in the country, and the greater number of the plants were 

 collected here. The settlement is built on rounded knolls of 

 rocks, with boggy little valleys between, where the vegetation 

 springs ; further back are various boulder-clay valleys, where 

 considerable vegetation appears, though very little exposed to the 

 sun. The flora is not nearly so profuse as at Claushavn. The 

 whole country in this region is composed of rounded syenitic 

 hills of various heights up to 1,200 feet, bare or polished with 

 ice-action, or covered with black, horny Lichens, and with scat- 

 tered boulders and angular blocks of stone lying in all kinds of 

 positions over their summits and faces wherever it is possible for 

 them to lie. Between these fells and rocks lie flat valleys, com- 

 posed of boulder-clay beneath, but capped with a boggy covering 

 of turfy Peat, which the natives cut and dry in stacks for winter 

 fuel. Farly in the summer these are mere bogs of marshes, into 

 which you sink over the knees. Here the meltings of the winter's 

 snows accumulate, forming miniature lakes in the hollow places, 

 permanent all the year round, bordered by a thicket of CyperacesB 

 and bright with the yellow Ranunculus and other Arctic marsh- 

 plants, and the overflow goes off" by streams which pour in 



