to have most affinity with Dicranum latifo-
lium, but is probably different from both,
jBuxbaumia foliosa and Catharinea hercy-
nica, were common on wetter grounds, and
with them was an abundance of male specimens
in fructification of Dr. Wahlenberg’s
Catharinea glabrata, which I did not distinguish
from its neighbor of the same family
till Mr. Bright the following summer brought
home this plant with capsules, and I then
recognised the new Lapland Moss I had often
seen in Mr. Turner’s Herbarium. Lychnis
alpina was scarcely in flower; Saxifraga
tricuspidata, FI. Scandin. was in the same
state. Cardamine petrcea, Draba incana, and
contorta, and a Stellaria, which appeared
to agree with the description of groenland-
ica, were all plentiful. Silene acaulis and
Cerastium aipinum were not yet in blossom.
Juncus trifidus and biglumis were
most abundant: the latter formed a considerable
part of the herbage, intermixed with
our more common grasses, and with Festuca
vivipara. Late in the evening I returned
to Reikevig, and slept for the last time on
board the Margaret and Anne.
Thursday, This dav was exceedingly cold and
Ju n e 2 2 . f c • I I . wet, and in the early part of it there
was so thick a fog, that we could not see the
town from our vessel. As soon as we had
breakfasted, my luggage was conveyed on
shore, and placed in Mr. Savigniac’s house,
where it was proposed, that, while we continued
together, we should all meet at our
meals; and where, with the addition of our
ship-provisions to the good Icelandic mutton,
fish, and scurvy-grass (Rumex acetosa and
digynus), we fared exceedingly well. I had
this morning a favorable opportunity of looking
at the town, which consists of about sixty
or seventy houses, standing in two rows, of
nearly equal length, at right angles with one
another, so as to form the annexed
w.
’ figure, supposing the base of it to
. N* front the sea, and the upper part
to run into the country. Those houses next
the bay I have before mentioned, as being
all built of wood: they face the north, and
look, at a little distance, not unlike a number
of granaries. The merchants’ houses are
built exactly like the warehouses; that is to
say, of wooden planks, covered with the same
materials; and are only to be distinguished by