410 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Description or Prats 415. — Fig. 1. Plant, natural size. 2. Portion of 
stem, postical view, x 64. 3. Ditto, pier view, x 85. 4. Leaf with lobule, 
postical view, x 85. 5. Portion of leaf x 6. Stipule x 85. 7. Bract, 
x 85. racteole, x 85. 9. rianth, with bracts and bracteole e, x 64. 
10. Cross-section of ssiasith, x 24. 11. Andrecia, x 85 (Kinlochmoidart, 
S. M. Macvicar, Esq.). 
SUTHERLANDSHIRE MOSSES. 
By Witu1am Epwarp Nicworson. 
Tux following list of Sutherlandshire mosses is compiled from 
observations made between the 6th and the 24th July, 1899. From 
the 6th to the 17th July the district was explored by Mr. H. N. 
Dixon, who traversed the country from Lairg to Altnaharra, whence 
about six or seven miles to the south-west of Inchnadamph, and it 
was on th is ater res that the most interesting plants were found. 
he er mountains in the district were not very productive. 
Ben Mais. Assynt (8278 ft.) and Coinnemheall (8234 ft.) are capped 
to maintain a precarious existence there 
Owing to this fact, the moss-flora of the district, notwith- 
standing its high latitude, is ver r in northern or arctic 
agile 
—e,g. Tortula princeps and Weisia calcarea~—are characteristic of 
southern rather than northern latitudes 
A list compiled in so short a time is of necessity very incomplete, 
but a sufficient number of species, several of them of interest, were 
observed to make the list worth publishing, if only as an encourage- 
ment to ee a may be tempted to investigate more fully so 
promising a dist 
The lirica sate to the vice-counties, 107 being East Suther- 
land, which is separated from West Sutherland (108) by the line of 
the watershed, which is so traced as to divide the south-eastern 
