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here as we had found it two years ago on the 

 Island of Eigg. 



As we pass upwards, by streamlet and rill, the 

 Bog Pimpernel (Anagallis tenella) is in profusion, 

 with here and there Drosera anglica, the pale 

 Pinguicula lusitanica, and some nine species of 

 Carex. 



Descending again, over cliffs, where Arena pubescens 

 is growing, and through upland wet meadows, we 

 come on a plant new to us, and, as afterwards 

 appeared, to the records of the vice-county as well. 

 It is Hypericum elodes, the Marsh St. John's wort, 

 its orbicular amplexicaul leaves forming cup-like 

 receptacles for large globules of rain-water, which 

 imparted to the plant the singular appearance of 

 frosted silver. This species we have just again 

 met with during October in Iona, where also it 

 appears to be a new record for the vice-county 

 (No. 103) to which that island belongs, while Mr. 

 Symington Grieve states to me that he found it 

 growing in abundance in Colonsay, among the Ebudes 

 South. 



The cataloguing I was enabled to do resulted in 

 a list of 225 Phanerogamic and 13 Vasculo-crypto- 

 gamic plants, in all 238 species, indicating a floral 

 variety of no mean order in what is but a fragment 

 of the "peat floating in the Atlantic," as the Long 

 Island has been humorously styled by the author 

 of Lewsiana, Mr. Anderson Smith. 



Of the above species, specimens of about 56 

 (including 2 afterwards got in South Uist) were 

 pressed and brought away. These have been sub- 

 mitted to Mr. Arthur Bennett, F.L.S., of Croydon, 

 our Corresponding Member, who reports that 15 of 

 them are fresh records for vice-county No. 110 — a 

 fact showing what a field there is for those who 

 have time and opportunity to visit these outlying 

 regions. 



The above 15 plants, named in accordance with 



