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both seen in considerable quantity, but the two forms appeared to 
me to intergrade considerably, and I must confess to finding great 
difficulty, at times, in separating them toes nines struck me 
as equally abundant, and which I should snare have selected as 
the gnarl plant of the s Vebera commutata, 
which I do not think has been saied fom this aca: 2 this was 
growing ae ao, and in considerable quantity. ere is a 
specimen of Webera in the Kew Herbarium, — Ben —o 
labelled W. cucudlata, collected, I believe, by Mit which I a 
inclined to think, from a superficial examination oa | is really the 
above species. ‘he two are much a ike in microscopical characters, 
but, besides the difference in the inflorescence, the leaves of W. 
commutata are markedly toothed above, while those of W. cucullata 
are almost entire; and the areolation of the latter is far wider and 
laxer than in W. commutata,. 
ubiquitous (eratodon purpureus was not wanting, at 4400 ft. 
Rhacomitrium sudeticum occurred in very pretty fruiting condition, the 
capsules being just Pa the high altitude, apparently, being respon- 
elay of three or four months beyond its recogni nized 
fruiting season at ae levels. 
driving mist and rain prevented a systematic examination of 
the ‘‘ Red Burn” on the down, but I gathered Hypnum molle 
of this distin ints speci es with falcate “wai of ordinary P. fontana. 
ear the “‘ well”’ at the es various forms of Hypnum exannu- 
latum occur, -inelidink mii r. purpurascens. A marked form of H. 
sarmentosum Wahl. had the pes bright green, with only a faint 
tinge of red. 
y purpose in i ay Glen Spean was to collect a er as 
possible on the mountain the vas Aon Mor. nd of which is known as 
for March, 1897, to the former of whom I am much indidhiead for 
suggestions and other help. In the limited time at my dispo 
however, : found myself quite unable to make the necessary 
arrangements for working the southern end os the mountain, an 
was bliged to content myself with part of a day on the Per 
slopes, and one ae about the summit of Aonach Mor, the latter 
only to be reached after a long tramp across an uninteresting and 
somewhat wearying stretch of moorland. On the former occasion 
I found practically nothing of interest, a form of Campylopus 
Schwarzii with the leaves somewhat faleate being almost the only 
moss gathered. On the same ground the next day I per 
Hypnum stellatum fruiting in some quantity. 
imag advice to botanists contemplating the Myisisaersnss« of Aonach 
would be emphatically that of Punch on the matrimonial 
sate Ina encnataliaak careful search of the clifts euke the oaamelt 
