160 А. Е. PorsiLp. 
Наге 9, off the northern entrance of the Waygat Sound, is a flat 
topped, bleak basaltic island of 170 km.? rising to a hight of 515 m. 
The coast is precipitous, with very narrow strips of foreland; the 
anchorage is bad and there are no protective coves. 
The flora has been investigated thrice, the last time by Porsizp (17). 
To his enumeration of 112 species I can add four — Lycopodium Selago, 
Papaver radicatum, Epilobium arcticum and Diapensia. 
Upernavik Ejland 71°9’—23’ is a striking contrast to the inhospit- 
able Hare Ø. It is abt. 560 km.?, and the mountains of gneiss or granite 
on the north-west corner are the highest in West Greenland, while 
the Archaean rocks on the south-west corner are overlaid by fossili- 
ferous sandstones and shales. 
The interior is occupied by glaciers of which not less than abt. 20 
extend to within a short distance from sea. The island is therefore 
rightly named the most beautiful and wildest place in Greenland. 
When I had investigated the flora of the sandstone I wished to 
compare it with that on the gneiss which on the west coast is separated 
from the sandstone by a glacier. According to K. J.. V. STEENSTRUP 
(29, p. 226) this glacier in 1880 reached the sea and terminated in a 
steep front, and even as recently as some twenty years ago, according 
to a native living at Upernavik Nees, it produced icebergs. Now the 
front has retreated about one kilometer from the coast. It was im- 
possible to cross the glacier torrent or the crevasses of the glacier below 
a height of abt. 300 m. where at last I reached the exposed Archaean 
rocks on the far side. The hillside was however much too steep to climb 
and on the limited space of a small terrace I only noticed a few plants 
not seen on the sandstone: Dryopteris fragrans, Cystopteris, Woodsia 
ilvensis and glabella, Lycopodium Selago and annotinum, Saxifraga 
Aizoon a. 0. | 
Returning across the glacier I saw a heap of gravel which had 
apparently fallen on to the glacier from the steep hillsides. On this 
heap was a Salix glauca, actually growing on the moving glacier. 
The plants collected on the sandstone in addition to the more or 
less common arctic types include such distinct southern types as Bo- 
trychium Lunaria, Juncus arcticus and trifidus, Poa alpina, Festuca rubra, 
Elymus, Carex alpina, Luzula spicata, Viscaria alpina, Arabis alpina, 
Draba aurea, Sibbaldia, Veronica alpina, Bartschia, Euphrasia and others. 
The occurence of Botrychium Lunaria here is perplexing as on the main- 
land it is not known north of the 65th parallel, while at the warm springs 
of Disko it reaches 69°14’. Nearly as surprising was the absence of the 
high-arctic types which are common on the corresponding areas of the 
Nügssuaq Peninsula: Dupontia Fisheri, Carex ursina, Lesquerella, Arabis 
arenicola, Braya purpurascens, Taraxacum phymatocarpum а. о. 
