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Caltha palustris, Radicula officinalis, Bidens cernua, Hydrocotyle vulgaris, 

 Hypericum elodes, Galium palustre. Spiraea Ulmaria, Peplis Portula, 

 Callitriche stagnalis, Myosotis palustris, Equisetum palustre, etc., and a few 

 common mosses. 



[The lake at Lochnaw Castle partakes of much the same characteristics 

 as Monreith Lake (p. 140), being also surrounded with wood. Carex 

 pendula grows upon its shores. — J. M'A.] 



There are some pools situated upon the Sands of Luce. Thinking, 

 from the nature of the surroundings, that they might afford something of 

 interest, I was disappointed to find they had dried up. Fig. 79 illustrates 

 the site of one of these pools, the appended legend being a sufficient 

 description. These sands extend about 6 miles along the coast, and reach 

 inland about a mile and a half. The dunes, however, are nowhere very 

 large ; they begin quite abruptly just above high-water mark, and are 

 immediately covered with Ammophila arundinacea (fig. 80), which binds 

 the otherwise shifting sand. The highest dunes are at some distance from 

 the sea ; these also are capped with Ammophila, but are otherwise almost 

 bare of vegetation. Usually, however, the dunes are quite stunted, and 

 there is more vegetation (fig 81), or the ground is more or less flat and 

 moor-like, with a complete plant-covering. The dominant plants are— 

 Ammophila arundinacea, Carex arenaria, Salix repens, Hylocomium 

 triquetum, Rhacomitrium canescens and its variety ericoides, Calluna 

 vulgaris, and Pteris aquilina. These plants frequently form pure associations, 

 or they may be more or less mixed. Occasionally there is a grassy sward, 

 but, being closely cropped by rabbits, the species could not be readily 

 identified. Near the sea a number of the usual halophilous herbs, such as 

 Salsola Kali, Eryngium maritinum, Arenaria peploides, etc., occur scattered 

 over the sand. About Low Torrs, and also at Glenluce, there are extensive 

 salt-marshes with the usual vegetation, amongst which Ruppia rostellata, 

 Scirpus maritimus, and Juncus maritimus (fig. 82) are particularly abundant. 



IV.— Area VII. 



The examination of the lochs of Fife and Kinross (p. 67) may begin 

 at Lindores Loch in the neighbourhood of Newburgh; and after visiting 

 others in the same district we go to Tents Muir, and thence to Kilconquhar 

 Loch near Elie. From there we travel westwards, following a zigzag 

 route, by way of Clatto Reservoir, Carriston Reservoir, Loch Gelly, 

 Burntisland Reservoir, Loch Fitty, and others, to the lochs situated on the 

 Cleish and Lomond Hills, and thence to Loch Leven. Finally, on an ebb 



