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(fig. 47). The eastern shore is stony : large quantities of the dead 
stems of Phragmites communis have been washed high on this 
shore by the winter storms (fig. 48). This loch affords an 
excellent illustration of the difference between an eastern and 
western shore due to winds. Lobelia Dortmanna, Littorella 
lacustris, Juncus fluitans, Callitriche hamulata, Castalia speciosa, 
Potamogeton natans, Menyanthes trifoliata, Heleocharis palustris, 
Ranunculus Flammula, are the other plants that flourish here. 
A small colony of gulls were in possession of the bog at the 
western side. Some had made nests on the little elevated 
tussocks common to such places ; such nests consisted merely of a 
few grass leaves, etc. Others had nests quite on the bog, and 
liable to be flooded by a slight rise of the water ; such nests were 
rather large structures, built of Phragmites’ stems, so as to raise 
them several inches above the surface of the bog. 
On the west of Loch Ness, among the mountains, are a great 
number of lochs at an average elevation of about 1200 feet; some,, 
however, over 1600 feet above sea. Many of these bear a general 
resemblance in their flora. It is not essential therefore to treat- 
each loch separately ; they fall naturally into groups, and an 
enumeration of the plants of each group will be sufficient. We 
may group them as follows : — Taking the glens as boundary lines 
we have the lochs on the mountains south of Glen Moriston, 
those on the mountains between Glen Moriston and Glen Urquhart, 
Loch Meiklie in Glen Urquhart, and the lochs on the mountains- 
north of it. From the latter we shall pass across Loch Ness at 
Dochfour, and examine the numerous lochs east of Ness, working, 
back towards Fort- Augustus. 
South of G-len Moriston. — All these lochs are peaty and usually 
have a considerable colony of Carex rostrata upon their western 
shores, with C. aquatilis growing in shallower places in the rear 
of the former. The eastern shores are mostly stony or rocky, and 
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trees are entirely absent (fig. 49). The other plants that flourish 
at one or another of these lochs are as follows : — Littorella lacustris,. 
Lobelia Dortmanna, Isoetes lacustris, Fontinalis antipyretica, 
Chara fragilis, var. delicatula, Nitella opaca, Juncus fluitans, Calli- 
triche hamulata, Potamogeton natans, P. app. polygonifolius, P_ 
lucens, Sparganium minimum, Utricularia intermedia, Myrio- 
