ii6 ]i instead : Holiday amoiis;-st Xortlicrn Mosses. 



Whilst at Glen Lyoti i made several attempts to work on 

 Ben Lawers, but owing- to the wet and cloudy weather was 

 able to do but little. On one occasion I had the pleasure of 

 meeting- Mr. Cocks there, and, with him, of exploring- the West 

 Ravine, where we found many g-ood thing-s, notably Timniia 

 austriaca Hedw. , one of the rarest of British mosses, g-rowing- 

 in company with Hypnum cin-hosum, another rare species. 

 Amongst other species found by us on Ben Lawers may be 

 mentioned Hypnum HaLleri L.f. , Hyp. sa/caiani Schp., Blindia 

 ccespiticia Ldb. , Heterocladium sqnarrosulum L., MycoreLla apicu- 

 laia (in several places), Bracliytiiecinm plicaium B.&S., Barbida 

 icnuidopliila Schp., Hy/ocotninni pyrenaicuni Ldb., and Hylo. 

 umbratuni B.&S. The latter was found amongst boulders, and 

 was poor. To see it at its best one should visit the woods of 

 the Ballachulish neighbourhood, where it g-rows luxuriantly. 

 I may mention here that 1 found it fertile on Connor Hill, 

 CO. Kerry, in 1896. 



On one of my visits to Ben Lawers I came across Hypnnni 

 furgescens Schp., not hitherto recorded as British, but somewhat 

 frequent in bogs in Norway, where I first became familiar 

 with it. The Ben Lawers' specimens are as fine as any I have 

 seen, and the moss seemed quite at home there. For obvious 

 reasons I refrain from indicating- the part of the mountain 

 where I found this Hypnum, but I may add that it will give 

 me pleasure to send a specimen to any bryologist who has 

 not received one through the medium of the Moss Exchange 

 Club. It may also be worth while to record the occurrence on 

 Ben Lawers of very fine and plentiful Aulacomnion turgidii7n 

 Schwgr. This species seems not to be very rare on the 

 Perthshire mountains, but I had not previously heard of its 

 being found on Ben Lawers. 



Of Schiehallion, to which a day was given, there is little to 

 be said. This mountain, otherwise fascinating, proved very 

 bare of plants of all kinds. It gives rise to the Keltney Burn, 

 which towards Loch Tay becomes a deep and precipitous 

 gorge, rivalling- the gorges above Ingleton, in Yorkshire. Like 

 many other such places, it proved to be disappointing to the 

 bryologist, and much rough scrambling resulted only in the 

 observation of such mosses as might have been expected in 

 a locality of the kind. IVcisia curvirosiris CM., however, 

 occurred on dripping rocks. 



Allusion has been made to the indifferent weather experienced 

 in the summer of 1902. It was mainly owing to this cause that 

 I was denied a supreme pleasure of the student of the British 

 mosses — a long- day in genial weather upon Ben Lawers. 



Naturalist, 



