114 Binsiead : Holiday amongst Northeni Mosses. 



that these species sliould apparently be restricted to the walls. 

 Not a trace of either could I find on the rock of which the 

 walls were built. Other mosses were numerous at Heseltine, 

 and the place itself attractive. We reg'retted that the exigences 

 of trains would not allow us to explore it carefully. Amongst 

 other species we noticed plenty of fine Ortkotlieciuin rufescens 

 B.&S. and Barfyamia CEderi Sw. Mniiun affine Bland was 

 also good. In its typical form I have only once found this 

 moss in Britain. The Heseltine specimens would seem to 

 belong to a form intermediate between the type and the 

 common bog forms. 



On 4th July, the weather being wet and cold, and the main 

 objects of my visit to North-west Yorkshire having been accom- 

 plished, I left for Scotland, and on the following day found 

 myself established in the comfortable Bridge of Lochay Hotel 

 at Killin, the beautiful place in Perthshire so well known to 

 botanists as a centre from which to explore Ben Lawers and 

 other hills rich in good things. One of the visitors at the 

 hotel was Mr. LI. J. Cocks, of Bromley, a good bryologist, 

 with whom I made some pleasant excursions. We visited the 

 familiar Craig Chailleach and the neighbouring points of 

 Cruben, King's Seat, and the Ptarmig^an Mountain, these being 

 the prominent hills in the range to the north of Killin. This 

 range is composed largely of mica-schist, which is always rich 

 in mosses, and on it are found a large number of the rarest 

 British species, many of them occurring on no other hills in 

 Britain save Ben Lawers. As the range is already familiar to 

 bryologists, it will be enough to mention a few only of the 

 species which we found there. Amongst the rarest were Canip- 

 totheciuni nitens Schp. (found by Mr. Cocks), Plagiobryuni demis- 

 suni Ldb. , Tayloria lingulata Ldb., Thuidiuni decipiens DeNot, 

 T. Philibefti Limpr. , Milium spinosiim, Schwgr. , M. citiclidioides 

 Hiibn., Timtnia Norwegica Zett., IVebera albicans \ar. glacialis 

 Schp., Amblystegiuin curvicaide Ldb., Myurella apiculata B.&S. 

 Of these, one had always supposed the latter to be extremely 

 rare even on the Craig Chailleach range of hills. A careful 

 search, however, revealed it in some abundance throughout 

 the cliffs oi these hills. Owing to its habit of growing among^st 

 other species it might be overlooked by anyone not having 

 it in mind. It is quite a little gem when viewed through a lens, 

 and its slender stems may be found in almost every tuft of 

 Encalypta that on^ examines, mosses belonging to the latter 

 genus being apparently its favourite hiding-places. 



Whilst staying at Killin I visittd some moorland where, 

 seventeen years ago, I found a quantity of the rare Tayloria 



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