CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS FLORA OF EAST SUTHERLAND 225 



CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS A FLORA OF EAST 



SUTHERLAND. 



By ARTHUR BENNETT, F.L.S. 



THE county of Sutherland (East 107, West 108 of Watson) 

 extends across the north of Scotland from the Atlantic Ocean 

 to the North Sea. On its west and north-west seaboard it 

 is deeply indented by numerous sea-lochs ; its eastern sea- 

 board is much less so. East Sutherland is divided by Watson 

 from West by the water-parting on the central ranges of 

 mountains ; towards the south the county parting thus becomes 

 very complicated, and it may be that parts of West Sutherland, 

 hitherto so considered, are really drained into East Suther- 

 land. West Sutherland has been much more searched by 

 botanists than East, and its flora is much better known 

 and is probably more extensive ; although in both cases the 

 information is much scattered. As so much has been put 

 on record respecting the West division of the county, and so 

 little about the East, I have thought it would be well to put 

 into print what I have been able to get together, especially 

 as some of it is contained only in my own collection. I do 

 not pretend to have exhausted the literature, but name such 

 sources of information as are known to me, and appear in 

 my notes on the county. These are as follows : 



1. Excursions into the Highlands of Scotland, by Dr. Graham, 



in Jameson's " Edin. New Phil. Journal," 1825, 1827, 

 1833. 



2. The Northern Flora, by A. Murray, M.D., 1836. 



3. H. C. Watson. Catalogue in Kew Library, Nos. 39 and 41, 



contains " Lists of Plants seen about Golspie in Sutherland 

 in August 1832." 



4. List of plants seen in East and West Sutherland in 1881, 



by Mr. W. F. Miller, embodied in Notes on the Flora of 

 Caithness and Siitherland, by Arthur Bennett, in " Journal 

 of Botany," 1882, pp. 117-119. 



5. Records of Characece, by Messrs. Groves, in "Journal of 



Botany," 1883, 1884, 1886. 



6. A collection of plants made by Mr. Grant of Wick, in iSSS, 



and transmitted to me in the same year. 



