AN EPITOME OF A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF 
THE DOMINANT PHANEROGAMIC AND 
HIGHER CRYPTOGAMIC FLORA OF AQUATIC 
HABIT, IN SEVEN LAKE AREAS OF SCOTLAND. 
{With nine Plates.) 
By GEORGE WEST 
PAaE 
Part I. — Introduction ....... 156 
,. 11.^ — Systematic List of the Plants, and a Table showing 
THE Positions occupied by Plants in the Lakes . 168 
„ III.— The Lakes : — 
Area 1. The Ness District . . . . .196 
„ II. The Island of Lismore . . . .211 
„ III. The Nairn District . . . . .215 
„ IV. N.W. Kirkcudbrightshire . . . .217 
V. S.E. Kirkcudbrightshire . . . .233 
„ VI. Wigtownshire . . . . .238 
„ VII. Fife and Kinross . . . . .246 
„ IV.— The Plates ...... facing 260 
PART I.— INTRODUCTION 
This paper is mainly an epitome of work done on behalf of the 
Scottish Lake Survey under the direction of Sir John Murray and 
Mr Laurence Pullar, the full details of which have been already 
published by the author in the following , contributions to the 
subject : — 
(1) "A Comparative Study of the dominant Phanerogamic and 
Higher Cryptogamic Flora of Aquatic Habit in Three Lake Areas of 
Scotland'"' (with fifty-five plates), Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin.^ Session 
1904-5, vol. XXV. pp. 967-1023, 1905. 
(2) "Notes on the Aquatic Flora of the Ness Area,"" Geogr. Journ.^ 
vol. xxxi. pp. 67-72, Jan. 1908. 
(3) " A Further Contribution to a Comparative Study of the 
dominant Phanerogamic and Higher Cryptogamic Flora of Aquatic 
Habit in Scottish Lakes'' (with sixty-two plates), Proc. Roy. Soc. 
Edin., Session 1908-9. 
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