308 BRYOLOGICAL NOTES FROM THE WEST HIGHLANDS. 
nothing but Grimmia Hartmani, G. subsquarrosa, and Ulota Hut- 
chinsie 
The large boulders which so often line the shores of our Scotch 
lakes, as well as those of the English Lake District, are frequently 
he home of a short dark-green Grimmia, growing in undefined 
patches, with a sort of unfinished appearance, which, doubtless, is 
the cause that bryologists usually pass it by, probably as an un- 
developed Rhacomitrium, or form of G. trichophylia. Immersion in 
n. 
tinum occurred at 2750 ft., the latter showing the tetracladous 
branching in a most striking manner. Plagiobryum demissum, we 
were glad to see, was still to be found, over some considerable area, 
with Myurella apiculata here and there in close company. A moss 
which had all the appearance of a green-brown form of H. revolvens 
ar i . . 
mination was confirmed by Drs. Braithwaite and Cardot. At the 
suggestion of the latter I sent it for confirmation to Philibert, who 
ully endorsed the naming. The following is an extract hi 
tter :—“‘ Le premier, que vous rapportez au Bryum areticum, appar- 
le 
tient bien certainement a cette espéce; il en a tous les caractéres, 
egg ee ‘ ee 
