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clothed with algw, are without vegetation, and on those portions of the bottom, where 
the vegetation is at its densest, it is nevertheless largely inferior in point of individuals 
to such parts of the Atlantic as are rich in alge. I think that this statement may be 
extended even to the Greenland and Spitzbergen Seas, along the east coast of Green- 
land and the coasts of Spitzbergen, Beeren Eiland and northern Novaya Zemlya. It 
probably holds good even with respect to the American Arctic Sea, whose algology is 
as yet only very incompletely known. In the Kara Sea, judging by the few observations 
hitherto made, the character of the Flora is another at Novaya Zemlya than on the 
coast of Siberia. If the vegetation along the rest of the east coast of Novaya Zemlya 
resembles in its general features that of Uddebay, the only point on this coast where 
it has as yet been made the object of a closer investigation, the Flora of the western 
part of the Kara Sea is most closely allied, with respect to the number of individuals, 
to that of the eastern part of the Murman Sea. 
Of the whole Arctic Sea, the region along the north coast of Siberia, i. e. the eastern 
part of the Kara Sea and the Siberian Sea, has the poorest Flora with regard to number 
of individuals. From the observations hitherto made, it must be considered extremely 
poor. There is probably no other region of the sea to be found of the same extent 
with this, whose vegetation presents such a character of poverty and indigence. As is 
shown by the table and map published by SruxsBere of the dredgings in the Kara Sea 
and the Siberian Sea made during the Swedish expeditions in 1875, 1876, and 1878, 
researches have been carried on with the best dredging apparatus of modern time at a 
considerable number of places along the whole coast of Northern Siberia and generally at 
such a depth and such a distance from the shore, that in other seas and even in other parts 
of the Arctic Sea a bottom rich in alge would quite certainly have been struck very often, 
However, the data given, which are based on my own notes, show that in the eastern 
part of the Kara Sea and in the Siberian Sea alge have been dredged only in 10 
places. Only in four of these, viz. at Cape Palander and in Actinia Bay within the 
Kara Sea, and at Irkaypi and the region about the mouth of Kolyutshin-fjord within 
the Siberian Sea, algx were found in any notable numbers. The Flora of the last- 
mentioned locality may possibly be compared, in point of number of individuals, to 
that of poorer portions of the Murman Sea and the Greenland Sea; at the other three 
places the tracts clothed with alge were of little extent and the number of individuals 
was small. With regard to the vegetation of the six remaining localities I have noted 
the following facts, which seem to me worthy of being specially mentioned. 
iplsat. N74; 52) Longs. 85° 8; Kjellman?s Islands. 
Bottom: flat rocks and boulders of granite and gneiss. 
Veget.: scanty litoral vegetation of Urospora penicilliformis. 
2: Lat. N..76°8' Long... E. 90° 25. 
Depth: 16 fathoms. Bottom: stones and shingle. 
Veget.: Lithothamniom facundum, scarce. Phyllophora interrupta, extremely small 
and scarce. Lithoderma fatiscens, rather abundant. 
