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349. CEcoTHEA FENESTRALis, Fin. Smeaton Hepburn, iyth July 



1897 (Sir A. Buchan-Hepburn). 



350. BLEPHAROPTERA SERRATA, L. Taken on windows of Museum, 



6th May 1895 and gth March 1896 (P. H. G.). 



351. TEPHROCHLAMYS RUFIVENTRIS, Mg. ? ?, Morningside, isth 



April and 24th May (P. H. G.) ; ?, Blackford Hill, nth 

 November 1894 (P. H. G.). 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES ON THE FLORA OF EASTERN 

 ROSS-SHIRE. 



By G. CLARIDGE DRUCE, M.A., F.L.S. 



THE abnormally cold and dull summer of 1902 found me 

 once more on my way to Ross-shire, but I postponed my 

 visit to the latest date possible, as the season was so back- 

 ward. Lady Fowler of Braemore has been most kind in 

 giving me information and allowing me permission to visit 

 her estate, on which is situated the lofty and large mountain 

 Ben Dearg, 3647 feet high, which is the more interesting as 

 it forms the water-parting of Eastern and Western Ross. I 

 am also indebted to the lessee, Mr. Walter Parrott, for 

 permission to go over the Braemore forest. I stayed at 

 Aultguish, in the midst of the dreary and wind-swept Dirie 

 Moor, over which I had frequently journeyed on my way to 

 the western coast. I may say that I found vegetation more 

 backward even than I had expected, so that with critical 

 forms of Rumices, Atriplices, etc., nothing could be done. 

 Again, few Hawkweeds were in flower, and the Sedges were 

 in bad condition and were sparingly setting fruit. On the 

 contrary, the Grasses were luxuriant. Ben Dearg is a long 

 and toilsome walk from Loch Droma, to which I drove, and 

 I had the bad luck to sprain my ankle in Corrie Granda ; 

 but I worked round that handsome corrie to the grassy 

 slope of the watershed, and although on the eastern side the 

 day had been grim and gray, yet from the ridge, 2500 feet 

 high, a magnificent view was obtained of the Long Island or 



