BRYOLOGICAL NOTES FROM THE WEST HIGHLANDS. 807 
of pale or reddish cells, at times quite as marked as in L. recur- 
At about the summit, all our five species of Dicranum 
of the Section Arctoa were found, including D. molie, Wils., and the 
rare D. schisti Lindb. In the uppermost springs of the brae which 
forms the western side of the mountain, Philonotis seriata was found 
in very good condition, but the inelastic conditions imposed by 
railway time-tables on poy mer botanizing prevented search for 
specimens with perigonia or fru 
A visit to Ben Chalum ifforded a new station for Aulacomnium 
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Binstead had detected it many years before. By a curious coinci- 
dence it had been found, not irae weeks earlier, on the very next 
mountain, Ben Dheiceach, by Mr. R. H. Meldrum; it has now been 
gathered in at least five distinct stations in Perthshire, and it is not 
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or when growing, 
as it was here, half hidden among herbage on comparatively low 
grassy slopes—that part of a mountain which perhaps least of any 
is likely to tempt search on the part of a elie geriinne: is very far 
from being a conspicuous plant, however much it may be when 
g a patch by itself, as is sometimes the case. A careful and 
systematic search of Rannoch Moor is, by the way, strongly to be 
recommended to any bryologist suffering from too sedentary a life ; 
it would assuredly provide exercise, without undue excitement, and 
probably would add to the known stations of the Aulacomnium, 
while it might — conceivably restore to us Paludella squarrosa as 
a constituent of our moss-flora. 
Hypnum se a was fruiting freely in this, the best en of 
group of hills where the summi is at all strewn wit nlders. 
Tarbet. I found, however, I was reckoning without my hosts—of 
midgets—and was constrained to beat a speedy retreat, having seen 
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