6 H. G. SIMMONS. [SEC. ARCT. EXP. FRAM 
radicatum (3841), Alsine verna (3837), Festuca ovina (3839), Poa ab- 
breviata (3840), Catabrosa algida (3838), and two mosses (3842): Camp- 
tothecitum nitens and Brachythecium salebrosum (cf. Bryan!, Bryo- 
phyta, p. 245). 
2. Point in Viks Fjord. 
The place was visited by the same party on July 27, 1901, and 
Mr. Scuei here noted Saxifraga nivalis, S. Hirculus, Polygonum vivi- 
parum, Dryas integrifolia, Cassiope tetragona, and some grasses. 
Vegetation scarce. 
3. Bottom of Viks Fjord. 
Visited by the same party, July 29, 1901. Mr. Scuer noted about 
the vegetation here that it was very scanty. Around some lakelets in 
the low land there was a vegetation of grasses (Carices or Eriophora ?) 
and on the dry ledges a few flowering dicotyledoneous plants, the species 
of which were, however, not noted. Mr. Scuer found the cause of this 
poverty in the geological nature of the soil which is formed only of the 
débris of the same heavy, brownish limestone which in Ellesmereland 
also formed the poorest of all soils. At the last mentioned locality this 
limestone was interlaid with argillaceous slate and marlslate and there- 
fore had made possible the development of a somewhat richer vegetation. 
4. Low ness in the outer part of West Fjord. 
After leaving our winter-quarters in Harbour Fjord we anchored at 
this place, August 11, 1900. Our stay was, however, too short to allow 
me time for more than a very brief trip over the nearest part of the 
low ness, which was formed solely of limestone of the same poor quality 
as that which generally builds up both those parts of N. Devon and the 
outher parts of the Ellesmereland coast opposite. As usual, this soil of 
the limestone ledges and débris of the same material proved utterly. poor, 
and I could not manage to visit the cliffs at the point where the rooke- 
ries of gulls and guillemots doubtless formed a somewhat richer field. 
The area I traversed certainly, even had there been better time for 
its inspection, would have yielded little more than is shown by the 
1 N. Bryan, Bryophyta in itinere polari norvagorum secundo collecta. Rep. sec. 
norw. arct. exp., I, No. 11, Kristiania 1906, (quoted: “Bryxn, Bryophyta”). 
