238 THE FRESH-WATER LOCHS OF SCOTLAND 
Clonyard Loch is a quarter of a mile south-west of Barean Loch ; 
it is smaller, but the features are somewhat similar. It is surrounded 
by a sedge or reed swamp composed chiefly of Scirpus lacustris and 
Carex rostrata ; there is also an association of Typha latifolia, as well 
as minor colonies of Phragmites communis and Equisetum limosum. 
In the water outside the swamp zone there is a broad belt of Castalia 
speciosa. 
White Loch is the largest of this group, being about half a mile 
long by a quarter of a mile broad. It is half a mile south-east of the 
last-mentioned, and the public road from Douglas Hall to Dalbeattie 
adjoins its M^estern shore. The neighbouring district is a mixture of 
moor, cultivated land, and plantation, and the water is rather peaty. 
Where not marshv, the shores are sandy or stony, with a few syenitic 
rocks. It is a little more than 100 feet above the level of the sea, 
which is about a mile distant, and, although distinctly lowland in 
general aspect, yet a number of plants usually associated with peaty 
highland lochs flourish here. This is probably because the loch has 
not been interfered with, whilst the surrounding moor has been brought 
under partial cultivation. Littorella lacustris. Lobelia Dortmanna, 
Isoetes lacustris, Nitella opaca, and Fontinalis antipyretica, for example, 
all grow in this loch. Phragmites communis forms a belt around a 
great portion of the loch, especially on the east. On the west side 
there is a large association of Typha angustifolia, as well as minor 
groups of the same at other parts of the loch. In the water, beyond 
the Phragmites and Typha, associations of Scirpus lacustris occur, 
whilst Carex rostrata and Equisetum limosum occupy other sites. 
At none of the lochs of this Area (V.) was there any particular 
abundance of Bryophytes, such as occurred about the lochs of Area IV. 
Area VI 
Wigtownshire is remarkable for its great tracts of monotonous, 
treeless, and dreary peat moor. In comparison with the adjoining 
Kells district, almost the whole county appears flat and tame. The 
relaxing and enervating atmosphere of south-east Kirkcudbrightshire 
is here in manv places intensified. Agriculture is the dominant 
industry, particularly dairy-farming, and beyond the intractable 
moss-hags the land is frequently very rich. The population is 
chiefly centred in the areas of agriculture. The extensive moors are 
but thinly peopled, and there are no large towns. Those sheets of 
water that are situated on the open moors resemble highland lochs 
in their general features, although none that I have visited are at a 
greater elevation than 400 feet above sea-level. Those lakes that are 
within the zone of active agriculture are decidedly of the lowland type. 
