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yet been seen by tbat authority, and I hope to gather the plants in 

 question again this season. A very enjoyable day was spent in 

 walking from Dunkeld to Ballinluig with Dr. Buchanan White, who 

 showed me several interesting Salices, besides other rarities. Some 

 hours of very hot sunshine near Dalnaspidal proved rather un- 

 productive. The next halting-place was Fort William ; one day 

 being devoted to walking five miles up Glen Nevis, and working 

 part of the northern corrie of Stob Ban ; another to an examination 

 of the east flank of Ben Nevis ; and a third (which yielded little but 

 a long cUmb) to searching the stream in Upper Glen Nevis, as far 

 as " Steall " ; then turning northwards, ascending the ridge of Cam 

 Dearg, and skirting the eastern side of Ben Nevis. Some good 

 Hieracia of the alpiniim and nigrescens sections will be met with on 

 the crags by a July visitor. Thence I moved to Kingshouse, 

 Glencoe, a very wild spot, but apparently a good centre for field- 

 work (the deer-forests, however, are strictly preserved). Three 

 half-days here yielded some new records for the flora of Argyle. 

 From Tyndrum, a short ascent of Beinn-dubh-chraige was made, 

 and a little was also done on the north-east side of Am Binnein, 

 the southern peak of Ben More, descending on the Luib side. The 

 remainder of the time was spent at Clova, where inclement weather 

 and the present difificulty of access to some of the best ground 

 interfered a good deal with one's enjoyment. 



The vice- counties visited were Mid-Perth (88), Forfar (90), W. 

 Inverness (97), and Argyle (98). Plants marked "^ are believed to 

 be new to the vice-county mentioned ; those marked f do not seem 

 to have been before recorded as British. I wish to apologise before- 

 hand for any inadvertent claim to a record already anticipated ; in 

 any case, there is some advantage in the confirmation thus furnished. 

 As before, the greatest help has been given to me by Mr. Arthur 

 Bennett. Mr. F. J. Hanbury has looked over the hawkweeds, and 

 Dr. Buchanan White has seen several of the willow^s. Prof. 

 Babington kindly examined and annotated a number of doubtful 

 specimens. My thanks are also due to Prof. E. Hackel, Messrs. 

 J. G. Baker, Beeby, C. B. Clarke, Druce, E. F. Linton, and the 

 staff of the Botanical Department at S. Kensington. 



\Banunculus Flammula L., var. petiolaris Lange ined. Shore of 

 Lochan Mathair Etive, near Kingshouse (98). This has also been 

 sent to me (in fruit) from Sligachan, Skye, by the Rev. E. F. 

 Linton. Dr. Lange gave the following description: — " Erecta, 

 foliis inferioribus in petiolum longissimum anguste linearem reductis, 

 superioribus linearibus vel e petiolo longo angustissime spathulatis, 

 obtusis, integerrimis, floribus majoribus quam in typo, saliente 

 luteis." I do not think that the blossoms are larger than common 

 in Britain. The stems show a remarkable zigzag tendency; the 

 root-leaves are mostly rather curved, and very brittle, somewhat 

 resembling those of LittoreUa in appearance, when fresh. I sent 

 home several roots, which have shown some slight tendency towards 

 reversion to the type, but have kept much of their distinct habit 

 under greatly altered conditions. At first I believed this plant to 

 be a distinct species, and Dr. Lange also expressed some doubt in 



