A VIPIT TO BUAEMAR. 223 



minor, P. media, and P. rotund/folia; of the latter species we saw but few 

 plants — a matter of some regret to my companion, who had not up to 

 this time seen it in the district. Still further up we found Pailus cliamce- 

 morus mostly out of flower, but on that account no less beautiful, as all 

 who have seen its ruddy fruit can testify; it ascends the hills almost to 

 their very summits, which it is, perhaps, only prevented from doing, from 

 physical causes, as the want of proper soil. 



In the damper hollows, often among Sphagnum, which was also incrusted 

 with a leprous-like lichen, and sheltered many strange Junffermannia;, we 

 gathered Bryum rostratum, Bartramia fontana, Carex pilulifera, Epilohium 

 ahinifulium, £!. alplnum; while drier places of the same nature afforded 

 us the puzzling, though beautiful. Gonitis suecica, Vaccinium nliginosum, 

 which is very rarely indeed found either in flower or fruit; V. oxijcoccus, 

 a plant which in beauty yields to none — not even the fair Linncea — of all 

 that rewarded this day's very successful forage. The heath now began to 

 be very stunted, and at length gave up the struggle for existence, as we 

 neared the summit, which is a flat extent of quartz rock, profusely covered 

 with fragments of the same formation, affording a home to a rather numerous 

 family of lichens, such as Cetraria nivalis, in compact yellowish white 

 tufts; C. Icelandica — its more sprawling relative; Cladonia rangiferina, C 

 uncialis, Gyrophora prohoscidea, G. erosa, G. cylindrica, Gornicularia lanata, 

 G. tristis, (with apothecia,) with Gladunia vennicularis, an eccentric lichen 

 enough, for it rejoices in no apparent point of attachment to the ground 

 or any other surrounding object, and yet finds means to retain its footing 

 on this weather-beaten summit, in spite of wind and weather^ but not, 

 let me add, of the often greedy hands of the collector. I cannot here 

 dilute on the magnificent view that now rewarded our exertions, but hasten 

 to a neighbouring hill, a little to the south, where we find nothing new 

 but Guaphalium supinum, and a change of formation to the mica schist, 

 containing small garnets, and indicating our approach to a new district, 

 that of Glen Callater, which forms in many respects the connecting link 

 between this district and the adjoining one of Clova. But we proceed no 

 farther in this direction, as it is time we should think of our return, and 

 accordingly we choose a path leading round the back of the hill, and thence 

 almost directly to the Carr Rocks, which, running almost parallel with the 

 river, form the northern exposure of Morrone. 



As we jogged down the now somewhat rapid descent, we took an 

 occasional glance among the thick patches of Getraria Icelandica for its 

 apothecia, nor were we wholly disappointed; they seem to occur on a variety 

 with a broader thallus than that generally found. It was on this hill that 

 Professor Graham,, in 1821, collected the first British specimen of this 

 interesting lichen in fruit. By the sides of the streams we gathered Carex 



