THE MOSSES OP CAMPSIE GLEN. 217 



The Mosses of Campsie Glen : A contribution towards 

 a List of Mosses of the West of Scotland. 



Bv James Murray and R. D. Wilkie. 



[Read 26th April, 189S.] 



It has long been known to bryologists that Campsie Glen possessed 

 a rich moss-flora, but it does not appear that any detailed list has 

 hitherto been published. In the absence of such, it occurred to 

 us that it would be interesting and useful to students in this 

 department of Cryptogamic Botany, if a list could be prepared. 

 Having this aim in view, we have, in company, made a number of 

 visits to the Glen, and the following list gives the results of our 

 observations. There are here enumerated 115 species and 2 

 varieties, belono-ino; to 47 genera. Extensive as this list mav seem 

 for a lowland glen (the more especially when it is stated that the 

 area investigated embraced that part of the Glen only from the 

 entrance behind the hotel to where the burn is crossed by the 

 road to Fintry, a distance of not more than a mile and a half, and 

 when it is remembered that the Sphagnums are not included), still 

 it is not pretended that it is exhaustive ; on the contrary, we feel 

 sure that a more careful search would be rewarded bv the addition 

 of a number of species. 



Mosses of Campsie Glen. 



Those in fruit marked * 



■^Andrewa petrophila, Ehrh. ^Diphyscium foliosum, Mohr, 



■^Catharinea undulata, "^Ceratodon purpureus, Brid. 



Web. iv: Mohr. '^Rhabdoweisia denticulata, 

 *Polvtrichum aloides, Hedw. B. & S. 



■^urnigerum, Linn. ■^Dichodontiumpellucidum,Schp, 

 piliferuo), Schreb. *flavescens, Lindb. 



juniperinum, Willd. 



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