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412
CARL SKOTTSBERG.
developed in all its luxuriance. The mosses and lichens certainly
are partly or perhaps mainly the same species brought back by
the Belgian Expedition;1 of the four kinds of liverworts (40), three
are also common to South Georgia; one is a new species (from
South Shetlands).
On the Astrolabe Island only very slight spots were bare;
here grew Placodium and Lecanora species. Mosses were quite
Fig. i. Mossvegetation at Beatrice Point, Orleans Channel, Graham’s Land.
Photo by Skottsberg 1902.
lacking. On Cape Roquemaurel the vegetation was almost as
poor. Cape Kjellman, on the same coast, showed a richer
vegetation: some kinds of mosses were collected from the cracks and
crevices of the steep rocks, though occurring sparingly. The lichens
luxuriated with two Krørø-species, sulphurea and another, not known
to me, perhaps the trachycarpa (Stirt.) Müll. Arg., Mastodiâ tesselata
Hook, fil., etc. Here I also observed not few tufts of moss
lying-loose on the snow or earth, and I afterwards learnt that birds,
especially seagulls, use them for making their nests and by so doing
1 See p. 411 footnote; 5 species were new.
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