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BRYOLOGICAL NOTES FROM THE WEST HIGHLANDS. 
By H. N. Dixon, MA. 8. 
I spenr three weeks of last July in various parts of the West 
Highlands, the latter half in the company of the Rev. C. H. 
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of Ballachulish. This district has been little worked by bryologists, 
and as our gatherings proved of some considerable interest as 
me visit. 
ad three days in Mull, at Tobermory, but did little collecting, 
what opportunity I had being principally during an hour or two 
spent, through the courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Allan, in the grounds 
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men had been re-examined. There is however no other reason for 
doubting its correctness, as the species when clearly recognized will 
doubtless prove to be widely distributed in Scotland, as it has 
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= n-y-groes. Indeed, subsequently to gathering it in Mull, I found 
it three times in Scotland during the same visit, in two distinct 
localities near Ballachulish, and also near Tyndrum. 
At Aros I also gathered 7 ygodon conoideus H. & T., Hylocomium 
umbratum B. & 8., and fruiting Hypnum callichroum Brid.; while 
on the moors above, Sphagnum cuspidatum var. plumosum was found 
fruiting copiously with S. subsecundum var. obesum. On rocks near 
Tobermory I gathered a very starved form of Bryum, which 
appeared to be B. concinnatum Spr., though possibly only a starved 
and altered form of B. Jiliforme. 
next morning, when the luggage was duly forwarded, an 
part of it at least, to station beyond its destination ! 
There was a good deal of snow on the summit of Ben Nevis, but 
I was able to examine the edge of the precipitous cliffs on the north 
side in several places, Andreea nivalis and its var. fuscescens were 
