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merge in an older genus one founded on a plant which differs 

 from its new congeners to such an extent that the term " valde 

 insignis " can justly be appHed to it. Under these circumstances 

 I find it impossible to follow Dr. Pax in the illogical step he has 

 taken in suppressing Nepentkandra. 



DALMALLY PLANTS, 1910. 

 By Eev. E. S. Marshall, M.A., F.L.S. 



I SPENT four weeks with my family at the excellent Dalmally 

 Hotel, arriving late in June ; there had been a month's previous 

 drought, which continued during the greater part of our stay, to the 

 detriment both of fishing and botanizing. Although the district 

 has been well explored by Mr. Druce and others, some good 

 things were obtained ; those additional to Mr. Arthur Bennett's 

 Top. Bot. Supplement and Rev. W. R. Linton's British Hieracia 

 are starred, but some of them have no doubt already been re- 

 corded elsewhere. To Mr. Bennett, with Revs. E. F. Linton and 

 Augustin Ley, I am indebted for critical help. 



The vegetation of the granitic satellites of Ben Cruachan 

 appears to be very poor in species; but this appearance may have 

 been partly caused by the exceptionally dry season. Meall nan 

 Tigearn and its northern peak, Meall nan Gabhar, south-western 

 outliers of the Ben Laoigh group, do not seem to have been pre- 

 viously explored ; although under 2500 ft., they produce many 

 alpine plants, the show of Dnjas octopetala in particular surpassing 

 any Scottish mountain that I have visited. The distance from 

 Dalmally being considerable, and both my visits having been 

 interfered with by heavy rain, I am sure that a more thorough 

 investigation would give good results. 



With the exception of those made in a few hours on Ben More, 

 v.-c. 88 Mid-Perth, all my gatherings came from v.-c. 98 Argyle. 



Thalictrum minus L. (coUinum Wallr.). River Awe, below the 

 Pass of Brander ; a few plants, in flower only, but doubtless this 

 species. 



Gastalia alba Link var. minor. Pools at the Loch Awe end 

 of Strath Orchy. Mr. Bennett points out that this combination 

 was used by Link, long before the Transatlantic authors Greene 

 and Wood. It should be noted that Nymphcea minor DC. {Pro- 

 dromus, i. 116) is a N. American species. He gives under N. alba 

 a ft minor Besl. from Alsace, but without description ; I think 

 that Mr. Druce should stand as the authority under Gastalia. 

 With it occurs in plenty a small-flowered Nymphcea lutea L. 



Arabis petrcea Lam. var. ambigua Fr. Meall nan Tigearn ; 

 very local. 



'■'■ Viola lutea Huds. Frequent in the vale of Dalmally ; the form 

 amcena (Symons) is much more plentiful than the type. 



■■-PotentiUa Crantzii G. Beck {rubens Vill). Common on 



