298 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 



Most of Ewing's published work consisted of papers contri- 

 buted to the Transactions of the Society. The first of these — a 

 list of the flora of Ben Laoigh, its phanerogams, mosses, and 

 hepaticae — was pubHshed in 1883. Next year he gave an account 

 of an excursion to Ben Lawers and Creag-an-lochan, with a 

 long list of the plants found, and in the same year was read a 

 valuable paper entitled "A week in Glen Shee." Several "Contri- 

 butions to the Topographical Botany of the West of Scotland " 

 appeared at intervals from 1887 onwards, and the results of these 

 were embodied in the Glasgow Catalogue of Native and Established 

 Plants in 1892. Of this a second edition, which was noticed in 

 this Journal for 1899 (p. 276), was published in that year. 

 During his later years Ewing paid special attention to our 

 mountain Carices, upon which he held views which did not 

 always coincide with those of experts : of these he contributed 

 numerous specimens to the Botanical Exchange Club, of which 

 he was a member. 



Ewing had an intimate acquaintance with the flora of our 

 Scottish mountains, especially with that of Clova and Breadalbane. 

 He was not happy unless he visited Ben Lawers once or twice 

 every year. He was familiar with the mountain under all aspects, 

 had climbed it in dry weather and in wet, in sunshine and in 

 shade, in clear air and in dense mists, and to be in the west 

 corry when one cannot see two yards in front is not a particularly 

 enviable experience. 



Of tall stature, and of rather spare but sinewy build, Ewing 

 could undertake the longest tramp and the stiffest climb, and w^as 

 a skilful and daring cragsman. Few have so often explored the 

 corries of our Highland hills, few could ascend or descend them 

 with surer foot, and few have taken more delight in searching out 

 and studying their floral treasures. 



When, not having seen him for many years, I met him in 

 Dundee in the September before his death, Ewing appeared quite 

 hale in body and mind. On one day of that week we walked up 

 Glen Phee together, and spent the hours in botanical talk, re- 

 calling excursions of former days with Buchanan White, Ferguson 

 of Fearn, and others now no more, to me at least. Little did I 

 then think that I should never meet him again ! 



Ewing was twice married ; by his first marriage he had three 

 sons and four daugliters, all of whom survive. His widow is also 

 an accomplished field botanist. He was elected a Fellow of the 

 Linnean Society in 1894. 



W. Barclay. 



[The accompanying portrait is, by the courtesy of Mr. George 

 Goode, reproduced from the Keport for 1912-13 of the Watson 

 Botanical Exchange Club, which contains a short notice of 

 Ewing. A long and interesting account of him, by the late 

 William West, appears in the Report of the Botanical Exchange 

 Club for 1913, pp. 378-81.— Ed. Journ. Bot.] 



