62 THE PLANTS OF THE GRAMPIANS. 
altitude; but from the scale on which it is commenced, the 
work in question cannot be all printed before several years 
wil have elapsed. Meantime, the lists now offered will be 
serviceable to those who take interest in tracing the connec- 
tions between the vegetation and the physical geography of 
countries. 
The abbreviations used will most of them be apparent to 
persons who are acquainted with the names and situations of 
the Highland hills, Ben-na-muic-dhu (sometimes called Ben- 
mac-dowie) is shortened into Muicdhu; Ben-na-Bourd is - 
written simply Bourd; and the word Ben is omitted before 
Nevis and Lawers. Cairn signifies the Red Cairn, a sharp 
ridge opposite the steep precipices on Ben Nevis. Killin is 
used to express the mass of mountains near the village of 
Killin, and extending from Ben ,Lawers to the Lochy, the 
serrated outline of which rises into distinct peaks known as 
Craig Chailleach, Ben Cruachpen, Mal Grew, &c. For the | 
low grounds about Killin, I have used the name of Tayhead. ` 
Gnarrow is a hill of about 3000 feet elevation, on the west 
side, and near the north end of Loch Erricht. Drumochter 
(forest) rises on the eastern side of that Loch, and forms 4 | 
crescent of several miles long to the southward of Dalwhinnie 
inn, which stands near its northern base. The southern side | 
of this ridge is part of Athole forest, on which Dalnacardoch 
inn is built. As the forest of Drumochter thus rises betwee? ` 
the moors where those two inns stand, whenever Drumochtet | 
is named in the list, I have passed over Dalwhinnie and Dal- 
nacardoch, and preferred to name Castleton or Glen Clova | 
although respectively lower. To name the two former, after ` 
Drumochter, would be only saying that the same plant grows - 
lower than Drumochter, on the same ridge; which would be : 
needless in a list that relates to the upper stations of the ` 
plants. E 
Luzula arcuata . . . Ben-na-muick-dhu, 4,300 feet. 
Luzulaspicata . . , Muicdhu, 4,300. Lawers, 4,000 Cairn, 3,800. 
Festuca vivipara. . . Muicdhu, 4,300. Lawers, 4,000. Cairn, 3,800. 
Silene acaulis . . . Muicdhu, 4,300. Lawers, 4,000. Cairn, 3,800. 
