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-ever been found in Clova; and I think Don must 

 doubtless have meant Lochnagar, as he obviously 

 does with reference to some other plants recorded 

 by him from that district. 



I do not know if ^. rivularis is still to be found 

 near the top of Ben Nevis ; but a few plants of it 

 still grow on Ben Lawers. Any one, who has seen 

 this plant growing on Lochnagar, would very readily 

 form the impression that it had been planted on 

 Ben Lawers and had never become fully acclima- 

 tized. On the latter mountain the plants appear 

 small and weak, seldom exceeding 2h inches in size ; 

 while, on the former, they are much more luxuriant, 

 their average size being about i inches. 



Gnaphalium norvegicum, Jacq. This plant is re- 

 corded from a good many stations, and it is said to 

 be found chiefly on the mountains once covered by 

 the Caledonian forest. 1 have botanized over a 

 considerable area of mountainous country said to 

 have been once covered by that forest, but have 

 not met with anything resembling the plant. A 

 stunted form of G. sylvaticxtm is pretty common on 

 our Highland mountains, and its general description 

 seems in most respects to agree with that of G. 

 norvegicum; but, when specimens are compared, 

 their difference is at once seen to be very marked. 

 Canlochan is given as one of the stations for this 

 plant. I have, I think, examined nearly all th(i 

 rocks that can possibly be reached without a 

 rope; but while I have frequently observed the 

 alpine form of G. sylvaticiwi, I have not as yet seen 

 anything approaching G. norvegicmn. It grows, how- 

 ever, beside the Mulgedmm alpinum on Lochnagar. 



MuLGEDiUM ALPINUM, Less. Ill the mountainous 

 districts of Forfar and Aberdeen this plant does 

 not seem to be so rare as many of our more widely 

 •distributed alpine species. In Canlochan there are 

 five patches, three of which are known to me ; one 

 in Canness, known to Dr. Stirton; two in Corrie 



