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lu the clamp crevices of quartz rocks in mountainous 

 districts. In Scotland we have found it most frequent in 

 the West Highlands, such as on the wild precipices of 

 Glencoe. Fr. Summer. This is a large and fine species, 

 distinguished by its broad and deep tufts, "clothing with 

 their softness the moist crevices of the rocks on which it 

 grows." It varies somewhat in size and in the density of 

 its tufts. 



7. Bartramia arc u ATA, Brid. [Curve-stallced Apple 

 Moss.) Stems much elongated, proliferous ; leaves horizon- 

 tally patent, ovato-lanceolate, acuminated, serrated, striated ; 

 seta very short, arcuate, at length lateral ; capsule not fur- 

 rowed. — Eng. Fl.p. 67; M'dll. 8yn.pt. I. p. 4B7. 



On moist rocks and banks, in subalpiue districts, rare in 

 fruit. Pr. Winter. An interesting Moss, on account of its 

 being almost entirely confined to the British Isles ; the only 

 foreign habitat we are aware of being that recorded by 

 MiiUer, the Eigi Mountain, in Switzerland, where it was 

 found in a barren state. Its favourite localities seem to be 

 the moist, gravelly banks, more or less shaded by heath and 

 other dwarf plants, so frequent by some of the Highland 

 "lochs," where its spreading golden tufts will arrest the 

 gaze of even the unscientific eye, amid 



