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Flora of Scottish Lakes. 
1011 
Lochan a Choin is a small loch in a partially cultivated area ; 
its western shore is flat, with muddy peat. The eastern shore is 
stony and bare of plants. The water is peaty. The western shore 
is covered with a considerable area of vegetation presenting the 
usual features, Equisetum limosum, Carex rostrata, C. aquatilis, 
and Menyanthes trifoliata being the dominant forms. 
Lochan nan eun Ruadlia is near the last mentioned, but much 
larger, and very bare of plants. The south-west side has deep 
water quite up to the thick peat bank, with no shore whatever. 
The eastern and northern portion has a shore of stones and rock. 
The western side has a marsh area occupied chiefly by groups of 
Phragmites communis. No boat could be obtained here, and I 
could procure from the shore but very few aquatic plants, only 
Myriophyllum alterniflorum, Juncus fluitans, Littorella lacustris, 
Lobelia Dortmanna, Chara fragilis, var. delicatula, Fontinalis 
antipyretica. Beyond the above-mentioned Phragmites, the 
littoral plants are chiefly Carex rostrata and C. aquatilis, with 
a few others usual to the district. The strata hereabout consists 
greatly of a reddish conglomerate : on the ridges of this are several 
perched rocks of the same formation. A very similar strata occurs 
on the east shore of Loch nam Breac Deargh, below Meall 
Fuarvounie. 
Loch Duntelchaig is one of the largest lochs in the Ness area, 
and is a magnificent sheet of water 3 miles long by 1 wide, and 
702 feet above sea level. It would take at least a week to do 
justice to this lake. I could only give it a short inspection, 
during which I saw nothing different in vegetation from what has 
usually occurred. The clearness of its water has already been 
remarked upon (p. 1010). 
Loch nan Gead’as, at the south-west end of Duntelchaig, and 
joined to it by a narrow channel which has wide, marshy flats on 
either side. This loch is more or less surrounded by a swamp 
bearing an abundant vegetation (fig. 77). Beyond those plants 
enumerated under the photograph, the vegetation is quite ordinary 
and common to the district. 
Loch Ceo Ghlas is a long narrow loch 766 feet above sea, below 
Tom Bailgeann. The clearness of its water has been already 
mentioned (p. 1010). The south-east shore has colonies of Carex 
