94 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 



ELGIN MOSSES. 

 By J. A. Wheldon, F.L.S. 



Two years ago, during a short visit, Mr. Macvicar collected a 

 number of mosses in Elgni, but bis time being much occupied in 

 other directions, after a partial examination they were laid aside. 

 He recently placed the whole collection at my disposal, and I have 

 completed the determination of the specimens, with the assistance 

 of Messrs. H. N. Dixon and E. C. Horrell in cases of difficulty or 

 doubt. 



The Watsonian vice-county Elgin or Moray (95) of the East 

 Highlands Province is included by Mr. Horrell in that group of 

 counties for wliich no satisfactory moss-lists exist. It therefore 

 seems desirable that the following should be placed on record, as a 

 contribution, necessarily very incomplete, to our knowledge of the 

 plants of this vice-county. 



Mr. Macvicar informs me that the specimens were collected in 

 wet swampy ground intersected by a stream, and on walls, turfy 

 banks, and dry ground by the roadside, during an afternoon's ramble 

 near Grantown. The district is schistose, with beds of gravel. 



Sphognum papUlosum Lindb. var. noviuale Warnst. — f. conferta 

 (Lindb.). — ^\ compactiuii DC. var. unhricatum Warnst. — *S'. viol- 

 lusciim Bruch. — S. suhnitens Kuss. & Warnst. var. obscurum Warnst. 

 — S. riibelluin Wilp. var. versicolor Buss. — *S'. ru/escens Warnst. 



Andreaa petropliila Ehrh. 



Catharinea nndnlata W. & M. 



Polytrichiim aloUles Hedw. — P. urni<jeriun L. — /'. pUlferum 

 Schreb. — P. janiperinum Willd. 



DUrichum homomalliim Hampe. 



Caratodoii piirpurens Brid. 



Dichodontium pellucidam, Schimp., with a form tending towards 

 var. far/imontamim Schimp. in its short blunt leaves, but otherwise 

 nearer the type. 



Dicranella heteroiiialla Schimp. 



Blindia acuta B. & S. 



Dicramiiii scopariiim Hedw. — Var. ortliophyUiun Brid. 



Leucobrijum glaucum Schimp. 



Fissidens taxifoHus Hedw. 



Grimmia apocarpa Hedw. — Var. rivularis W. & M. — G. pulvinata 

 Sm. — G. trichophijUa Grev. 



PJiacomitrlum aciculare Brid. — R. heterostichum Brid. — jR. lanii- 

 (jinosiim Brid. — B. canescens Brid. — Var. ericoides B. & S. 



Tortula muralis Hedw. — T. subiilata Hedw. The capsules only 

 about half the usual size, otherwise quite normal. — T. ruralhWaxh. 



Barbula rubella Mitt. — B. rigiduia Mitt. Very short and 

 densely compact tufts, apparently from walls. The leaves, how- 

 ever, quite typical in shape and areolation, and the axillary gemmae 

 numerous. — B. convoluta Hedw. — B. wifjuiculata Hedw. 



Encalijpta streptocarpa Hedw. — A', vulgaris Hedw. — Zggodon 

 viridissimiis R. Br. 



