46 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



spent in Aberdour and the surrounding parishes. This 

 district proved well deserving a visit, Aberdour especially 

 being rich in species not seen, or very rarely seen, else- 

 where in Buchan. Its greater richness appears chiefly due 

 to the low sandstone hill that runs inland from Pennan 

 Head, deeply cut by small streams into narrow sheltered 

 valleys or dens. These dens, especially the small Den of 

 Auchmedden, near Pennan, have long had a local reputation 

 for their wealth in plants. The others are known as the 

 Den of Aberdour (about three miles along the Dour burn 

 from south to north, with seven tributary dens), the Den of 

 Troup (also from south to north, separating Aberdour from 

 Gamrie in Banffshire), and the Den of Glasslaw (nearly 

 from west to east, along the Gonar burn, the chief source 

 of the North Ugie). 



During September and October, and on 2nd November, 

 I visited as often as I could other parts of the district, in- 

 cluding the parishes along the east coast from Slains to 

 Lonmay, Logic- Buchan, Ellon, Longside and Old Deer, 

 Fyvie, Auchterless, Turriff, King Edward, and Alvah. 



As before, I have received valuable aid in the identifica- 

 tion of the critical forms from Mr. Arthur Bennett, F.L.S., 

 Mr. William Barclay (Rosa\ Mr. James Groves, F.L.S. 

 (Charace<z), and the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers (Ritbus). The 

 Rev. E. S. Marshall has kindly examined the examples of 

 Epilobium, and Mr. F. J. Hanbury, F.L.S., of Hieracium. 

 New records for the vice-counties 93 (N. Aberdeen) and 94 

 (Banff) are indicated by these numbers, followed by an 

 asterisk. 



Thalictruni ditnense, Dum. Not a common plant on the coast of 

 Buchan, though scattered here and there from Slains to Gamrie. 

 I have found it in eight of the eleven parishes along the coast, 

 but in moderate abundance only on some of the inner sand- 

 hills at Cruden Bay, and on the links east of Rosehearty in 

 Pitsligo. 



Ranuncuhis fluitans, Lam. Plentiful in the Deveron. In the 

 Ythan above Ellon grows a plant (unfortunately not found 

 bearing flowers or fruits) that Mr. Bennett thinks must be 

 either R. fluitans, var. Bachii, or R. pseudo-fluitans, Bab. 



R. Lenormandi, F. Schultz. In an old backwater of the Deveron 

 (now quite cut off from the river), in Alvah, near Bogbraes, 



