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Phanerogamic or Cryptogamic — cannot but prove interesting. 

 This district is extensive, and requires continuous and hard labour 

 to work up its flora. Though in variety of surface and in humidity 

 of chmate — conditions favourable to cryptogams — it is inferior to 

 such districts as the Glenkens, yet it contains a greater number of 

 sub-alpine species of plants. A continued residence is necessary 

 to know the Cryptogamic botany of a district, and therefore a 

 holiday of a few weeks at Moffat in last July, 1891, cannot pretend 

 to be sufficient to exhaust the flora of the district, more especially 

 as my rambles were almost confined to the vicinity of the town. I 

 visited, however, the Grey Mare's Tail, the Beef Tub, Gaipel 

 Glen, Beld Craig Glen, the Cornell Burn, and the Well Bum. In 

 these places, and on the Gallow Hill. I found most of the Crypto- 

 gams noted below. Lists, more or less full, of the Cryptogamic 

 plants of Moffat have been made by Dr. W. Nichol, Mr John 

 Sadler, and Mr James Cruickshank, and the results of their 

 labours have been nearly all embodied in my lists of Mosses and 

 Ilepaticae in the last Volume of the Transactions of the Society. 

 The following lists are supplementary to those already given, and 

 are not understood to be exhaustive. I am sorry that my re- 

 searches at Moffat have enabled me to add but one single new 

 moss to the district, viz., Dicramtm spurium, on the south slope of 

 the Well Hill. I may add that the prevailing rocks of the district 

 are Greywacke and the new Red Sandstone. 



The following Mosses are new records for the Moffat 

 district : — 



Sphagnum acutifolium vars. purpureum, rubellum, tenue, and 

 elegans ; S. squarrosum, cuspidatuni, rigidum, subsecundum and 

 var. contortura, tenellum ; Andrewa petrophila, alpina ; Weissia 

 viridula, cirrhata ; Diohodontium pellucidum ; Dicranella squarrosa, 

 cerviculata ; Dicranum fuscescens, scoparium var. paludosuui, 

 majus ; CaniiDylopus flexuosus, fragilis, pyriformis ; Leucobryuni 

 glaucum ; Pleuridium subulatum ; Seligeria pusilla (Cornell Burn); 

 Blindia acuta ; Pottia truncata ; Didymodon fle.xifolius, cylindricus ; 

 Ditrichum homoniallum ; Trichostonium mutabile ; Barbula muralis, 

 unguiculata, fallax, rigidula, revoluta, convoluta, tortuosa, subulata, 

 ruralis; Ceratodon purpureum ; Grimmia apocarpa and var. rivulare, 

 trichophylla ; Rhacomitrium aciculare, Sudeticum, heterostichum, 

 fasciculare, canescens ; Ptychomitrium polyphyllum ; Zygodon 

 viridissimum ; Ulota Bruchii, phyllantha ; Orthotrichum afline, 

 straniineum, Lyellii, leiocarpuni ; Splachnum ampullaueuni ; 

 Entosthodon Templetoni ; Bartramia ithyphylla, Halleriana (Cornell 



