i64 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



botanical travellers and of alpinists who have been through 

 a course of scientific studies ; and John Bell's tabular 

 scheme of the distribution and range of the plants of the 

 Alps, a model of its kind, has unfortunately not found 

 imitators in other countries, with the exception, perhaps, 

 of the exhaustive and critical study of the Arctic Flora 

 of Norway by J. M. Norman, Royal Commissioner of 

 Norwegian Forest-lands — a masterly digest of phyto- 

 geographical research and investigation. 



The List here given includes those plants only which 

 are found to occur at looo metres and upwards (that is, 

 beyond 3280 ft.). A list is given below of the 6y peaks 

 which attain this height in Scotland, with 3 in 

 Caernarvonshire and 2 in Kerry, with heights given in 

 metres and in English feet. The heights here given are 

 taken from the ordnance maps and from the most recent 

 topographical statistics. There is no hill in England 

 itself which reaches a height of 1 000 metres, the highest 

 summit being Sea Fell Pike, in Cumberland, which is 

 977.2 metres. There will therefore be no reference in this 

 List to any altitudinal range in the English counties. 

 In six only of the Scottish counties are there mountain 

 peaks which exceed 1000 metres — Argyllshire, Perthshire, 

 Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, Inverness-shire, and Ross-shire. 

 These are the only Scottish counties in which localities and 

 heights are cited. Three counties are excluded whose 

 highest summits fall a little short of a thousand metres — 

 Sutherland, in which Ben More of Assynt rises to 997.6 m. ; 

 Stirlingshire, in which Ben Lomond rises to 973 m. ; and 

 Angus in which the highest point is Driesh, one of the 

 Braes of Angus, 947 m. The Snowdon range in 

 Caernarvonshire exceeds the limits at three points, the 

 actual summit of the chain, known as Ur Wyddfa, Carnedd 

 Llewelyn, and Carnedd Dafydd ; the peak of Glyder Fawr 

 falls short of it by little more than a metre. 



The following is a list of the 6j summits in the British 

 Isles which exceed a thousand metres, drawn up as far as 

 possible from examination of the official ordnance maps. 

 They are given in two series in parallel columns. In the 

 first column, grouped under counties, the heights are given 



