Flora of Scottish Lakes. 
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Caltha palustris, Radicula officinalis, Ridens cernna, Hydrocotyle vulgaris, 
Hypericum elodes, Galium palustre, Spiraea Ulmaria, Peplis Portula, 
Callitriche stagnalis, Myosotis palustris, Equisetum palustre, etc., and a few 
common mosses. 
[The lake at Lochnaw Castle partakes of much the same characteristics 
as Monreith Lake (p. 140), being also surrounded with wood. Carex 
pendula grows upon its shores. — J. M‘A.] 
There are some pools situated upon the Sands of Luce. Thinking, 
from the nature of the surroundings, that they might afford something of 
interest, I was disappointed to find they had dried up. Fig. 79 illustrates 
the site of one of these pools, the appended legend being a sufficient 
description. These sands extend about 6 miles along the coast, and reach 
inland about a mile and a half. The dunes, however, are nowhere very 
large ; they begin quite abruptly just above high-water mark, and are 
immediately covered with Ammophila arundinacea (fig. 80), which binds 
the otherwise shifting sand. The highest dunes are at some distance from 
the sea ; these also are capped with Ammophila, but are otherwise almost 
bare of vegetation. Usually, however, the dunes are quite stunted, and 
there is more vegetation (fig 81), or the ground is more or less flat and 
moor-like, with a complete plant-covering. The dominant plants are — 
Ammophila arundinacea, Carex arenaria, Salix repens, Hylocomium 
triquetum, Rhacomitrium canescens and its variety ericoides, Calluna 
vulgaris, and Pteris aquilina. These plants frequently form pure associations, 
or they may be more or less mixed. Occasionally there is a grassy sward, 
but, being closely cropped by rabbits, the species could not be readily 
identified. Near the sea a number of the usual halophilous herbs, such as 
Salsola Kali, Eryngium maritinum, Arenaria peploides, etc., occur scattered 
over the sand. About Low Torrs, and also at Glenluce, there are extensive 
salt-marshes with the usual vegetation, amongst which Ruppia rostellata, 
Scirpus maritimus, and Juncus maritimus (fig. 82) are particularly abundant. 
IV. — Area VII. 
The examination of the lochs of Fife and Kinross (p. 67) may begin 
at Lindores Loch in the neighbourhood of Newburgh; and after visiting 
others in the same district we go to Tents Muir, and thence to Kilconquhar 
Loch near Elie. From there we travel westwards, following a zigzag 
route, by way of Clatto Reservoir, Carriston Reservoir, Loch Geliy, 
Burntisland Reservoir, Loch Fitty, and others, to the lochs situated on the 
Cleish and Lomond Hills, and thence to Loch Leven. Finally, on an ebb 
