English: Slope with Dryas near Snenæs. In the foreground luxuriant mats of Dryas (30. G. 1908). Snenæs 76Ø-31 (76°49.2´N 19°21.4´W; Map 4). Peninsula on Winge Kyst in south Germania Land, so named by the 1906–08 Danmark Expedition because it was usually snow-covered.

Title: Arbejder fra den Botaniske have i København
Identifier: arbejderfradenbo5070kb (find matches)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Københavns universitet. Botanisk have
Subjects: Plants; Plants; Plants; Plants
Publisher: København, Levin & Munksgaard (etc. )
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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Some Notes concerning the Vegetation of Germania Land 391 Slightly sloping or horizontal gravel-deposits, which in the first part of summer (June) are continually irrigated hy melting snow, soon form a flourishing bog oŒriophorum polystachyum from which Arctagrostis latifolia is rarely wanting. The rocky flat proper is formed by the gravel and clay layers to which must suffice the moisture which either the snow which covers the spot or the adjacent drifts of snow can provide from the time when the snow begins to melt in spring. These constitute by far the largest part of the area (with loose material), and it is the only formation which exhibits some alternation in the composition
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Fig. 8. Slope with Dnjas near Snenæs. In the foregronnd luxnriant mats of Drijas (30. G. 1908). of its vegetation. As a formation it also includes the scattered sparing vegetation of the primitive rocks. Nature in its entirety has a stingy hand in these regions; poverty peeps through everywhere, and any extent of sociability cannot be afforded. Not even the most robust proletarian dares to associate in large quantities for fear of mutual deprivation of sustenance. If ultimately some associations are formed, e. g. the Carea;-bogs along the small streams, the societies are always verj' exclusive, though not in the sense that the members exact too much of life : a drink of water during summer and a covering of snow during winter is all that they demand.

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