MOSSES COLLECTED IN GILGIT, etc., BY 
J. GARRETT AND W. LILLIE. 
By 
H. N. DIXON, M.A. F.LS. 
The mosses included in the following list were sent me by the Rev. 
D. Lillie for determination, having been collected by Messrs. Garrett and 
The mosses of this district 
Lillie during a visit to the Gilgit Agency. 
are little known, and as the list contains a few species new to science 1 
seemed very desirable to put them on record. So far as I know the only 
mosses hitherto recorded from this distriet are those collected by 
J. F. Duthie, and published by Brotherus in Act. Soc. se. fennicae 
Mr. W. Lillie explain the route 
taken and the topography of the collecting grounds. 
: issi given by the Political Agent 
Gilgit, through the British Resident in Kashmir, for Messrs. Garrett 
and Lillie to visit, for purposes of scientific study, the Gilgit Agency, the 
is occasionally the scene of raids). The Ag ; : a 
along the Indus Valley, with rocky mountains on either side, has in wa 
regions near the river almost no ese —— usar 
osses were fi in 
three places where ™ ended to some considerable 
height in the company of the Assistan ] Agent of Chilas, and 
nd the Gilgit cantonments. 
the Indus Valley into Kashmir was by ascend- 
oods Ws 
through the D1 oan - ntry that was interesting in every Way to the 
