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the foothold of the slippery knobs in the conglomerate, without 

 getting my feet wet. JSncalypta vulgaris is frequent on the dry 

 rocks at the lower end of the dean. The autumnal Bibio Johannis 

 was hovering about, (August 13, 1878). 



The water from the two last ravines is lost for the greater 

 part of the summer among the gravelly and stony bed of a tribu- 

 tary of Emmelscleugh burn. The summer's heat and sunshine 

 discharge the colour from the Conferva rivularis, which coats tho 

 stones, making them look as if white-washed with lime. The. 

 steep opposite bank has a thicket of juniper, birch, and willow. 

 Some sloe bushes also fringe the base. Ranunculus auricomm in 

 small quantity is visible ; and there are some Carices, but none 

 of them rare. 



The following list of Mosses and Hepaticae has been made out 

 from examples here and there plucked at random. 



Musci. 

 Sphagnum acutit'olium. 

 Weissia controversa. 

 Dicrarram pellucidum. 



squarrosum. 



majus. 



Ceratodon purpureus. 

 Trichostomum mntabile, var, 



— — rigidulum. 



Encalypta vulgaris. 



streptocarpa. 



Schistidium apocarpum. 

 Grimmia pulvinata. 

 Orthotrichum crispum. 

 Pogonatum nanum. 

 Polytrichum juniperinum. 

 Byrum crudum. 



nutans. 



pseudo-triquetrum. 



pallens. 



J capillare. 



Mnium punctatum. 

 Bartramia i'ontana. 



calcarea. 



Fissidens adiantoides. 



taxifolius. 



Climacium dendroides. 

 Leskea sericea. 

 Hypnnm lutescehs. 

 striatum, 



L 



ruscifolinm. 



polygamum. 



palustre. 



— loreum. 



squarrosum. 



■ fiuitans. 



. filicinum. 



commutatum. 



Neckera complanata. 



Hepatic^. 

 Alicularia scalaris. 

 Plagiochila asplenioides. 

 Scapania undulata (Shippath and 

 Emmelscleugh) . 



nemorosa (Fairy Castle. 



glen). 

 Jnngermannia pumila (Shippath 



and Emmelscleugh) . 



inflata (Emmel sclev.gh) . 



— bicrenata. 



excisa (Shippath). 



bicuspidata. 



- — — - tomentella, (Bladdering 



Cleugh, and. Thurston 



High Wood). 

 Pellia einpliylla. 

 Marohantia polymorph;). 

 Fegatella conica. 

 Reboulia hemisphferiea. 



