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Buckie Loch is separated from the Moray Firth on the 

 north by a fringe of rather high coastal dunes already 

 mentioned in connection with the Marram grass. The 

 loch lies in a broad valley which is parallel to the dune, 

 is about a mile long, extends westward into the low-lying 



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Map V. 



Map showing distribution of vegetation in Buckie Loch and neighbourhood. 



sand near the seashore — part, at any rate, of the " Loch " 

 seems to be subject to invasion by high tides.— and is 

 flanked on the south by comparatively low dunes and 

 ridgea bearing Ammophila (urenaria, which rise into the 

 loftv barren dunes. By the early autumn Buckie Loch 

 has diminished in size very considerably: but the gentle 

 marginal slopes which are flooded in the spring bear a 

 dense vegetation. At Buckie Loch there is no great 

 quantity of sand blown in from the west, so that the 



