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D. Peat Mosses on the Isle of Skye. 
Prat Moss No. 7. (Text-fig. 7.) 
Situation: N.N.W. of Sligachan between Allt Dubh and the point 33 
of the Sligachan—Portree road. Altitude about 65 m. above sea-level. 
The samples 1-3 were taken in an exposure made by peat-cutters, the 
others with the bore. 
Sequence of layers :— 
A. 180 em. Eriophorum vaginatum peat, well humified, especially below 
(H. 28-9), brown-black. 
B. 25 cm. Mud resting on 
(at 205 em.) Gravel. 
TEXT-FIG 7. 
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 99 100 yi 
4 N /| — i| 
N / 2 
À 
1 3 
| [ 
| 
14 if 
d 
BN" 4 
4 1 | bu 4 
4 A | 
al 
7 A 
DA 
A L^ 5 
= i = = 
Bi A 7 
a T ‘oJ 
—p— Alnus. —o— Betula. —e— Pinus. un Ulmus. 
Quercus.  --...... Tilia, --m-- Corylus. 
(Ordnance Survey of Scotland, Sheet 70.) 
Sample 6 shows a remarkably high Corylus percentage, the frequency 
being a little greater than that of Betula (58, resp. 56 per cent.). Tilia 
pollen was recorded in sample 6. 
Prat Moss No. 8. (Text-fig. 8.) 
Situation about 1500 m. N.W.-W.N.W. of Sligachan at the southern end 
of Loch nan Eilean. Altitude above sea-level about 76 m. 
In the loch there grew, amongst other plants, Lobelia Dortmanna, 
Potamogeton polygonifolius, and Schenus nigricans, and on the wet meadow, 
from which the borings were taken, Drosera longifolia, Menyanthes, Myrica, 
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