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Ceandor ; and one at least in Lochnagar, consisting^ 

 of about 150 plants. It can neither be said to be 

 found " on high wet rocks " nor " beside rivulets,'^ 

 as is stated in some of the Floras. According to 

 my experience, I have in all cases found it in those 

 situations, well-known to alpine collectors, where 

 Lychnis ditirna, Geraniuvi sylvaticum, and Luzula 

 sylvatica seem to find a congenial home — moist 

 sheltered places at an altitude of about 3,000 feet. I 

 believe the chief cause of the " rarity " of this plant to 

 be the difficulty of reaching the S]3ots where it grows. 

 I do not believe one collector in a hundred would 

 undertake to gather a single specimen from any 

 of the stations where I have seen it. In appearance 

 it much resembles Sonchus oleraceus but with blue 

 flowers. 



Epipactis ovalis, Bab. This seems to be an English 

 subspecies of the rather common £J. latifolia. 

 Sutherlandshire was, I believe, the only Scotch 

 county in which this plant had been found before 

 it was gathered by Rev. J. Fergusson and myself 

 last summer. We were working round some 

 limestone rocks towards a spot where Mr. Fergusson 

 had seen two or three plants a day or two previously^ 

 when I came on a good many. As these were not 

 yet in flower, and we were tired after our day's 

 work, we did not go nearly so far round as the 

 station indicated by Mr. Fergusson. It seems strange 

 that while Don should have found in this district so 

 many plants which no one else has rediscovered, 

 this species and Pyrola secunda should only last 

 year have been added to the botanical record of 

 the county. 



Cabex lagopina, Wahl. This is doubtless the rarest 

 of the British Car ices. It seems to have been over- 

 looked by Don, and u^ till now has only been reported 

 from Lochnagar and Cairntoul ; but having found a 

 specimen in Canlochan, I am enabled to add another 

 to its list of stations. The specimen referred to was 



