2112 О. HeLms. 
The whole of this district is for the most part a wild, mountainous 
country, where even on the small islands mountain tops rise everywhere, 
the highest more than 2000 metres. Low land, less than 200 metres high, 
occurs only very infrequently, while lakes and fens are scarce. But 
up in the fjords, in more favourable places, vegetation is fairly luxuriant 
and, even if it can nowhere be compared with the vegetation in south- 
west Greenland, there are great stretches, covered with plants, forming 
the usual meadows, herbaceous plots, heather heaths and thickets. 
Few districts in all Greenland are probably so well explored in a 
botanical sense as the Angmagsalik district. On all the expeditions which 
have been to Angmagsalik, right from NATHORST, who visited the area 
in 1883, plants have been collected and the vegetation described. The 
most exhaustive description is by Kruuse who, in 1898— 99, accompanied 
Amdrup on the boat trip between 65° 35’ and 67° 20’, and later sojourned 
a whole year in the Angmagsalik district from September, 1901 to 
September, 1902; he has made botanical investigations all over the 
district and drawn botanical maps of several localities. He proved that 
in every direction there was a fairly luxuriant vegetation, particularly 
deep into the fjords. In many places there are thickets of willow, here 
and there very extensive, seldom more than a metre high, as well as 
thickets of dwarf-birch and juniper. In favourable places there are 
large stretches with what WARMING has called herbaceous plots, fre- 
quently with up to fifty kinds in one locality. There are extensive grass 
areas and grass fields, heather heaths mostly formed of black crowberry 
and marsh whortleberry, which however only bear an abundance of 
ripe fruit in very few places. There are one or two fens and a number 
of small lakes with rich vegetation along the edges. This comparative 
luxuriance of plants is further shown in the fact that in the whole 
district a total of 184 kinds of flowering plants have been found. 
Kruuse describes one locality as follows: “Close to the north of 
our camping ground (on the east side of the fjord) at a height of 30 to 
70 metres above the sea, the foot of the mountain is covered by the 
largest willow thicket in the district. The bushes (Salix glauca) attain 
a height of more than one metre above the ground, and the stems, 
the lower part of which lie along the ground, are at times more than 
three metres long and three centimetres in diameter at the base. Hach 
tree has three to six stems which spring from a very old, tuberiform, 
often very decomposed trunk below the ground. The stems rarely 
attain more than 40 to 60 yearly rings, while the age of the under- 
ground portion cannot be determined. Through the thicket the rami- 
fications of a clear, quiet mountain beck worm their way and supply 
the fresh soil with abundant moisture.” 
“Even at our first visit (June 21st) the snow had long been com- 
