348 HEPATICE OF MOIDART, WEST INVERNESS. 
Petals cuneate-obovate, pubescent externally, + 1em.long. Carpels 
strigose pubescent on the back, + 9 mm. long, ridged in the middle 
of the back. 
The cinereous palmatilobed leaves, the racemose inflorescence, 
and the rather small flowers with subulate bracts, constitute the 
distinguishing characteristics of this species. 
HEPATIC, OF MOIDART, WEST INVERNESS. 
By Symers M.- Macvicar. 
Morarr forms the extreme south-west corner of the county of 
Inverness in latitude 56° 50’, and, bordered as it is by the Atlantic, 
1 d equable climate favourable for Hepatice. The 
district is mountainous, though none of the hills ascend above 
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most abundant. Around the shores are small cliffs and boulders, 
where many species are found. There is little change in the flora 
of the hills up to 600 ft., the height to which the ravines extend : 
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zone of Watson, with rock ledges, where the majority of the rarer 
alpine species are found, ag with flowering plants. From 1600 ft. 
€ Summits, 2800 ft.-2900 ft., are the more or less exposed 
shoulders, with few Special plants. 
The geological formation of the district is schistose, for the 
as Jungermania riparia, which appear to be confined to, or are mos 
frequent on, that formation on the Continent 
of it. 
y range is taken from the report of the Medical Officer of Health 
oe Oban, in his Oban, a Health and Holiday Resort. The rain- 
fall of Moidart is large, 
the different watershed 
: most striking features in the flora is the abundance of 
Lejeunee and of Plagiochila spinulosa forms, and the luxuriance of 
and that of Kerry, more so perhaps than with the flora of any 
other part of the British Isles, There are three species limited in 
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