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but there was not much danger of one sinking in it as there 

 was considerable growth of grasses, plants, and mosses." 

 It occurred between Lybster and Loch Rhuard, altitude 

 430 feet, 58' 22' N. lat, about ih miles from the loch. 

 The loch itself afforded Lobelia Dortmanna and Subularia 

 aquatica, rare plants in the county. As the water from the 

 loch and the stream running into it is discharged into the 

 Loop river, thence to the Little river, and finally into the 

 Thurso river, the plant belongs to the north-west watershed, 

 not to the east. 



5. Hirculus is not on record north of West Perth and 

 Kincardine, 57° N. lat. ; the extension of range north 

 to Caithness is interesting, though it is a high arctic and 

 northern species. 



As a rare species it may be well to summarise its distribu- 

 tion in our Isles. 



91. Kincardine. Wet moor on the farm of Jacksburns, 

 Glenbervie. 2 1.6. 1839. — Mr. James Rae. This is the station 

 erroneously given in ''Topi. Botany" as " Aberdeen, J. Rae." 



87. Perth, W. Madie Moss, above Tillicoultry, c. 2000 feet. 

 Northern side of the Ochils, Clackmannanshire. — Mr. W. 

 Thompson. 



83. Edinburgh. On a wet moor between Fala and Stow. 

 — G. J. Blackie. Three miles beyond Blackshiels, Pentland 

 Hills, Midlothian. 11. 8. 98. — F. C. Crawford sp. 



81. Berwick. Moor south of Langton Lees farmhouse, 

 plentiful. — Dr. Johnston, c. 1831 ; sp. Cardiff Museum !. 



78. Peebles. Pentland Hills, source of the Medwin, 

 about icoo feet. 11.9.1836. — Dr. A. Hunter. J. H. Balfour 

 sp., 19.9. 1 838. 



TJ. Lanark. Boorland Moss, Walston, Sept. 1850. — G. F. 

 Blackie. No altitude given, but the parish ranges from 660 

 to 1000 feet alt. 



69. Westmoreland. Neathheath Syke, alt. 1800 feet, Sept. 

 1840. — John Bell. Backhouse in Herbarium, York !. 



66. Durham. Wet moor, Inishope, Weardale, 2.8.1885. — 

 J. P. Soutter sp. 



65. York, N.W. Sedbergh. — J. Handley, "Yorkshire 

 Naturalist" (1903), p. 408. Cotherstone Fell, 1847.— D. 

 Oliver sp. The actual station is swamps at the junction of 



