90 THE DISTRIBUTION OF HEPATIC IN SCOTLAND 
West Highlands, i.e. West Inverness, it is frequent. While 
F. pusilla, which is of a more Southern type, is the more 
common plant in the Lowlands, this is the more common in 
the Highlands. Also its localities in the Lowlands are 
mostly of a higher altitude than are those of F. pusilla, 
although the highest is hardly above 1000 ft. to 1200 ft. alt. 
Occurs in small light-green patches on moist loamy soil on 
fallow ground, footpaths, sides of ditches, and at the sides 
of reservoirs and ponds. Fruit, mature from July to 
November, is generally present, but not commonly before 
the middle to end of August. 
K. Lowianps.—Peebles: Portmore Loch (Evans); nr. 
Carlops (Evans); Logan Water, alt. 1000 ft. (Maev.). 
Edinburgh: Braid Hills, on margin of skating pond 
(Evans); Glencorse Reservoir (Evans); Thriepmuir Reservoir 
(M‘And.); Rosebery Reservoir (Evans). Linlithgow: Nr. 
Bathgate (Evans); Drumshoreland Curling Pond, Broxburn 
(M‘And.). 
S.E. HiGHLANDS.—Mid Perth : Tibbermore (Meld.). 
Mrip EK. HicgHianps.—Forfar: Fern, 1878 (Ferg.). 
W. HicHiANnps.—W. Imverness: Moidart, fallow fields 
and ditch-sides, F. (Macv.). 
INNER HeEpsripEes.—S. Inner Hebrides: Jura (Ewing). 
Mid Inner Hebrides: Nr. Tobermory, side of path (Macv.) ; 
Dervaig, ditch-side (Maev.). 
Upper N. HiGHLanps.—Caithness: Watten (Lillie). 
FOSSOMBRONIA PUSILLA (L.) Dum. 
Distributed from Dumfries and Berwick to West Inver- 
ness and Caithness. Most of the localities at present 
known are from the west side of the country. It appears 
to be rather frequent in the West Lowlands, and rare in the 
East Lowlands. Is probably also rare in the East Highlands, 
and is uncommon in the West Highlands. Our knowledge 
of its distribution, as in the case of the previous species, is 
mostly confined to districts where there is a_ resident 
botanist. It forms rather larger patches as a rule than 
F. Wondraczekii, and has a more powerful odour. It grows 
on bare, moist, loamy soil, in fields and gardens and on 
banks, but it has not been found on the mud at the side of 
