DET KONGELIGE DEPARTEME NT FOR HANDEL, SJØFART, INDUSTRI, HÅNDVERK OG FISKERI NORGES SVALBARD- OG ISHAVS-UNDERSØKELSER LEDER: ADOLF HOEL SKRIFTER OM SVALBARD OG ISHAVET Nr. 70 EILIF DAHL, B. LYNGE, AND P. F. SCHOLANDER LICHENS FROM SOUTHEAST GREENLAND COLLECTED CHIEFLY BY DR. P. F. SCHOLANDER IN 1932 DURING THE NORWEGIAN EXPEDITION IN THE sIs "POLARIS" WITH 2 MAPS ---(.--- OSLO I KOMMISJON HOS JACOB DYBWAD 1937 RESULTS OF THE NORWEGIAN EXPEDITIONS TO SVALBARD 1906-1926 PUBLISHED IN OTHER SERIES (See Nr. 1 of this series.) The results of the P r i n c e of Mon a c o's expeditions (Mission I s a c h sen) in 1906 and 1907 were published under the title of 'E x P lora tion duN ord-O u est duS P its ber g entreprise sous les auspices de S.A.S. le Prince de Mo naco par laMission Isachsen', in Re sultats des Campagnes scientifiques, Albert ler, Prince de Monaco, Fasc. XL-XLIV. Monaco. ISACHSEN, GUNNAR, Premiere Partie. Re cit de voyage. Fasc. XL. 1912. Fr. 120.00. With map: Spitsberg (Cote Nord-Ouest). Scale I: 100 000. (2 sheets.) Charts: De la PartieNord du Foreland a la Baie Magdalena, and Mouillages de la Cote Ouest duSpitsberg. ISACHSEN, GUNNAR et ADOLF HOEL, Deuxieme Partie. Description du champ d'operation. Fase. XL I. 1913. Fr. 80.00. HOEL, ADOLF, Troisieme Partie. Geologie. Fasc. XLII. 1914. Fr. 100.00. SCHETELIG, JAKOB, Quatrieme Partie. Les formations primitives. Fase. XLIII. 1912. Fr. 16.00. RESVOLL HOLMSEN, HANNA, Cinquieme Partie. Observations botaniques. Fasc. XLIV, 1913. Fr. 40.00. A considerable part of the results of the ISACHSEN expeditions in 1909 and 1910 has been published in Videnska psselskapets Skr ifter. I. Mat.-N aturv. Klasse. Kristi a n i a (O s l o). ISACHSEN, GUNNAR, Ra pport sur I'Expedition Isachsen au Spitsberg. 1912, No. 15. Kr. 5,40. ALEXANDER, ANTON, Observations astronomiques. 1911, No. 19. Kr. 0,40. GRAARUD, AAGE, Observations meteorologiques. 1913, No. 1. Kr. 2,40. HELLAND-HANSEN, BJØRN and FRIDTJOP NANSEN, The sea west of Spitsbergen. 1912, No. 12. Kr. 3,60. ISACHSEN, GUNNAR, The hydrographic observations. 1912, No. 14. Kr. 4,20. With ehart: Waters and anchorages on the west and north coast. Publ. by the Norw. Geogr. Survey, No. 198. HOEL, A. et O. HOLTEDAHL, Les nappes de lave, les volcans et les sources thermales dans les environs de la Baie Wood au SpItsberg. 1911, No. 8. Kr. 4,00. GOLDSCHMIDT, V. M., Petrographische Untersuchung einiger Eruptivgesteine von Nord­ westspitzbergen. 1911.! No. 9. Kr. 0,80. BACKLUND, H., Uber einige Olivinkn ollen aus der Lava von Wood-Bay, Spitzbergen. 1911, No. 16. Kr. 0,60. HOLTEDAHL, OLAF, Zur Kenntnis der Karbonablagerungen des westlichen Spitzbergens. I. Eine Fauna der Moskauer Stufe. 1911, No. 10. Kr. 3,00. Il. Allgemeine stratigraphische und tektonisehe Beobachtungen. 1912, No. 23. Kr. 5,00. HOEL, ADOLF, Observations sur la vitesse d'ecoulement et sur I'ablation du G1acier Lillieho ok au Spitsberg 1907-1912. 1916, No. 4. Kr. 2,20. VEGARD, L., L'influence du sol sur la glaciation au Spitsberg. 1912, No. 3. Kr. 0,40. ISACHSEN, GUNNAR, Travaux topographiques. 1915, No. 7. Kr. 10,00. With map: Spitsberg (Partie Nord-Ouest). Scale l: 200 000 (2 sheets). GUNNAR ISACHSEN has also published: Green Harbour, in Norsk Geogr. Selsk. Aarb., Kristiania, 1912-13, Green Harbour, Spitsbergen, in Scot. geogr. Mag., Edinburgh, 1915, and, Spitsbergen: Notes to accompany map, in Geogr. Journ., London, 1915. All the above publieations have been collected into two volurnes as E x p edi t i o n Isaehs en au Spitsberg 1909-1 910. Re sultats scientifiques. I, Il. Chri­ st i a n i a l 9 l 6. As the result of the expeditions of ADOLP HOEL and ARVE STAXRUD 1911-1914 the following memoir has been published in Videnska psselskapetsSkr ifter. I. Mat.­ Naturv. Klasse. HOEL, ADOLF, Nouvelles observations sur le district volcanique du Spitsberg du Nord. 1914, No. 9. Kr. 2,50. Expeditions of TH. VOGT 1925 and 1928: STØRMER, LEIF, Downtonian Merostornata from Spitsbergen. - Skr . Norske Vid.-Akad. I. Mat.-Nat. Kl. 1934. No. 3. Kr. 3,00. The following topographical rnaps and charts have been published separately: Ma ps: Bear Island. l: 25 000. 1925. Kr. 10,00. Bear Island. l: 10 000. (In six sheets). 1925. Kr. 30,00. East Greenland. Eirik Ra udes Land fromSofiasund to Youngsund. 1 : 200 000. 1932. Kr. 5,00. DET KON GELIGE DEPARTEMENT FOR HANDEL, SJØFA RT, INDUSTRI, HÅNDVERK OG FISK ERI NORGES SVALBARD- OG ISHAVS-UNDERSØKELSER LEDER: ADOLF HOEL SKRIFTER OM SVALBARD OG ISHAVET Nr. 70 EILIF DAHL, B. LYNGE, AND P. F. SCHOLANDER LICHENS FROM SOUTHEAST GREENLAND COLLECTED CHIEFLY BY DR. P. F. SCHOLANDER IN 1932 DURING THE NORWEGIAN EXPEDITION IN THE sis "POLARIS" WITH 2 MAPS ---(.,--- OSLO [ KO MMISJO N HOS JACOB DYBWAD 1937 A. W. BR0GG ERS BOKTRYKKERI Als 9n Wemory of my Wofher Cfllrs. EJulie Eynge Preface. n the summer of 1932 a Norwegian scientific expedition worked along I the coast of Southeast Greenland. Its bota ni st, Dr. P. F. Scholander, devotec! the greater part of his time to the study of the Vascular Plants, anc! after his return he published a valuable paper on these collections, into which he also incluc!ed the resuIts of some collections of minor importance from other Norwegians who worked on the same coasts in 1931 and 1932 (J. Devolc! anc! P. F. Scholander: Flowering Plants and Ferns of Southeast Greenland, Skrifter om Svalbard og Ishavet, No. 56, p. 1-209, Oslo 1933). During the expedition Dr. Scholander, who is a trained Iicheno­ logist, eagerly collected lichens. The forced work under such conc!itioris obliged him to restrict his efforts to the Vascular Plants and the larger lichens, Microlichenes were only incidentally collected. His paper on the former group spe aks for itself, but also his collection of Macro­ lichenes is very considerable. In reality it is so great that it is the first fully representative collection frOIJ1 this long coast. Scholancler collected lichens in the following localities : Kangerdlugsuak (about 630 15' N). Skardet, Aug. 29th. Spekkpynten (called "Første bistasjon ", i. e. First sub-station of the hunters, on the labeIs), Aug. 19th. Storfjord Radio (called "Brandal" on the labeIs), Aug. 25th-27th. Brandalsfjell, Aug. 23rd. Polarisbreen, Aug. 23rd. Amdrupneset, Aug. 28th. Akorninarmiut (about 63 c 30'). Finnsbu, J uly 24th and Aug. 10th, 11th, and 14th. Eskimoneset, Aug. 12th, (only diary). Dronning Maria's dal (often called Trollbotn on the labels), July 24th, and Aug. 12th. Tingmiarmiut (about 62 o 40 '). Brattneset, Aug. 8th. 6 EILIF DAHL, B. LYNGE, AND P. F. SCHOLANDER Kangerdlugsuatsiak (about 60 c 30' and a little farther north.) Mortensberg (often called Olabu on the labeis), July 26th. Fossheim, July 31st (only diary). Persvatnet, Jul y 31st. Møretind, July 28th. Møretun, July 31 st, and Aug. 3rd. Narsak, July 27th and 29th. Kangerdlugsuatsiak corresponds to the Lindenow fjord district. All these Iocalities will be found on the two maps which Dr. Scholander prepared for his paper of 1933, and which will be reproduced also for the present paper. Unfortunately, the collection of Crustaceous lichens was very small; it is far from representative, and can only be regarded as a contribution to our knowledge. It is not much greater than that of former botanists from these regions. We were therefore glad to receive a small collection of Crustaceous lichens from the Danish geologist, Mr. R. Bøgvad, M. A., which he had brought together in 1933 in the Isle of "Storøen" , a gneissic island at the outlet of a fjord Kangerdlugsuatsiak, 66° 15' N. On the southeast coast of Greenland there are severai fjords of this name, and to avoid confusion with the southernmost Kangerdlugsuatsiak (Lindenow Fjord) this locality has simply been named Storøen. Mr. Bøgvad collected his plants during a spare hour, a happy inspiration, for small though his collection was, it yet contained severaI interesting finds. It shows us how much research work there is still left to be done on the Crustaceous lichens on the southeast coast of Greenland. An hour's work in ant place there would be sure to result in the finding of other interesting plants. Dr. Scholander's plants belong to the Botanical Museum of Oslo (a good set of duplicates has been presented to the Botanical Museum of Copenhagen). Dr. Bøgvad's plants belong to the Copenhagen Museum, and the first set of duplicates has been presented to the Botanical Museum of Oslo. It is unfortunate that Dr. Scholander's present vocation (he is working on physiology) has prevented him from determining this interesting collection himself. It was therefore resolved that his col­ leagues should do it for him. My young student friend, Mr. Eilif Dahl, has undertaken the mounting and labelling of the whole collection, a work which required much time and patience. After that he preli­ minarily determined all the Macrolichenes. Dr. Scholander has followed our work from the beginning to the end, and has given us many valuable suggestions and much information which can only be furnished by the man who did the field work. It fell to the present writer to LICHENS FROM SOUTHEAST GR EENLAND 7 determine the Crustaceous lichens, to check the determinations of the others, and to pen the manuscript. It was thought desirable to give a survey of the lichens which have formerly been collected in Southeast Greenland, i. e., the coast between Cape Brewster (the southern entrance to Scoresby Sound) in the north and Cape Farewell in the south. Lichens from Scoresby Sound, and from other parts of Greenland have occasionally been mentioned if they offered special interest.