Contributions to the Flora of West Greenland. 161 
From Umånaq we sailed for Kük better known аз “Коте” the 
famous site for the Cretaceous Kome fossils at the north coast of the 
Nügssuaq Peninsula. VANHOFFEN collected plants at this locality in 
1892. The river which has given its name to the place has formed a 
‘narrow valley where sediments and gneiss meet in the riverbed. Here 
among boulders and shingle I noticed a few arctic species: Lesquerella, 
Dryas integrifolia var. canescens, Potentilla Vahliana and Calamagrostis 
purpurascens. 
In a Cassiope tetragona heath gently sloping towards the river I 
noticed the very rare and high-arctic Zutrema Edwardsw one specimen 
of which was recorded from here by VANHOFFEN. It occurred with 
Arctagrostis, Tofieldia palustris, Pedicularis hirsuta in damp mosses where 
the heather was not too dense. The specimens were scattered and I 
only picked up a score, some of which were seedlings. Flowering was 
partially over (July 26th). 
On the north coast of the Peninsula several landings were made. 
The features of the landscape are almost uniform. Towards the sea low 
sand dunes with Elymus, Festuca rubra var. arenaria, Taraxacum groen- 
landicum, Carex incurva and Honckenya. Beyond the sand dunes are 
shallow lagoons along which is a belt of Puccinellias, Carex ursina, 
incurva and glareosa, and between the lagoon and the dry land there 
is a peculiar form of salt marshes on which sometimes very extensive 
patches of the beautiful, high-arctic grass Dupontia Fisheri and Carex 
rariflora may be seen. 
From the lagoon the land often rises to a slightly elevated plain 
cut by numerous rivulets and from this plain the mountain range parallel 
to the coast line sometimes rises to nearly 2000 m. Here and there a 
glacier-river has cut through the mountains and from a steep gorge it 
 debouches on the lower ground where a fanshaped erosion-cone strewn 
with boulders is formed. The glacial streams constantly change their 
course and during the melting period very considerable masses of 
detritus are carried down from the highland. 
The characteristic features of the vegetation at this locality closely 
resemble WarMING’s “Fjældmark”” and are well described by Нотттом 
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At Qaersuarssuk at а small lagoon in addition to the characteristic 
Dupontia and Carices I also saw the rare and southern type Potentilla 
Egedii in full flower. 
The low terrace above the settlement is exceedingly barren and the 
vegetation is of the usual xerophile type: Carex nardina and rupestris, 
Cobresia Bellardi, Braya purpurascens, Draba magellanica subsp. cinerea, 
Lesquerella, Potentilla Vahliana and pulchella, Dryas integrifolia var. 
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