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rather poor in plant life were it not that their ledges are apt to be used 
as a rookery where millions of fulmar petrels breed. Thus the slopes 
below become abundantly manured, and both the slopes of limestone 
débris and the inner parts of the foreland are covered with a dense ver- 
dure formed, for the greater parl, of mosses but also of flowering plants. 
On the southern side the foreland consists mostly of limestone débris, 
on the northern, to a considerable extent of clay also. Here the vege- 
tation is, as usually in the clay-plains, rather open, and consists chiefly 
of flowering plants. In the foreland there are also some shallow ponds, 
encircled by the usual rim of mosses with a few higher plants strewn in. 
On the surface of the snowdrifts lying in the ravines, and in the 
upper part of the slopes, “red snow” appeared in greater abundance than 
I have seen anywhere else; and in the rivulets, on inundated ground 
and in the ponds many algae, especieally blue-green ones, were growing 
Dr. Bryun has given an account of the mosses (Bryophyta, pp. 245, 
249—9251), and it may therefore be enough to point out that he has found 
not less than 50 species in my collection from this locality. 
The flowering plants noted or collected at Cape Vera are:— Dryas 
integrifolia, Saxifraga oppositifolia (3843), S. flagellaris, S. nivalis 
3830), S. cernua, S. groenlandica (3846), Draba alpina (8836, 3841), 
D. alpina var. glacialis (3826), D. subcapitata (3829), Cochlearia offi- 
cinalis var. groenlandica (3841), Papaver radicatum with f. Hartia- 
num (3828), Ranunculus sulphureus, Cerastium alpinum (3824), Stel- 
laria longipes (8850), Alsina verna (3837), Oxyria digyna, Salix arc- 
tica, Juncus biglumis, Festuca ovina var. supina (3839), Poa abbre- 
viata (3840), P. cenisia (and f. prolifera), Glyceria distans (4016). 
Catabrosa algida (3838), Alopecurus alpinus (3825). I may, of course, 
have overlooked some species or other, but I was especially struck by 
the absence of such common plants as f. inst. Pedicularis hirsuta, and 
I also sought in vain for Eriophora and Carices. 
6. East of the large glacier west of Cape Hawes. 
During our stay here, July 17, 1902, I was chiefly occupied in dred- 
ging, but I could easily see that this place would not yield in any case 
more than a few of the most common species such as Sawifraga op- 
positifolia, Papaver radicatum, Draba alpina, Cerastium alpinum, 
etc., which were growing in an open clay-field below the cliffs. 
