FLORA OF ARROCHAR MOUNTAINS. 87 
Ben Narnain, immediately to the north of the ‘‘ Cobbler,” is 
3,036 feet in height, and is remarkable for its curious flat table-like 
top, flanked, on the east and south, by precipitous cliffs, and by 
steep slopes on the north and west. The sides of this mountain 
are marked by great crags, in the crevices of which many 
interesting plants are found. Its north-eastern slope, above the 
gully of the Allt-Sugach, has been well explored, and most of the 
hill-plants of greatest interest in the district have been found in 
this region. 
As already remarked, Ben Narnain is joined by the rocky ridge 
forming the boundary of the great Corrie to the next peak—that 
of Crois, 2,785 feet in height, a mountain of very imposing aspect 
as viewed from Inveruglas, where its steep northern face is seen 
in bold profile. This effect is lost in the view from Glen Loin, 
where it appears only as the culmination of the long ridge from 
Narnain. The summit of Crois is mostly grassy, and does not 
afford much in the way of rock-ledges or cliffs, except on its 
southern side, where there is a large rock-face with sloping ledges, 
rather rich in the less common hill plants. 
Ben Ime, the most westerly of these peaks, is highest in altitude, 
its summit being 3,318 feet above sea-level. On its most easily 
accessible sides this mountain is grassy to the summit, with little 
in the way of broken ground to favour the growth of the rarer 
alpine plants. This is its aspect both from Glen Croe, and from 
Coiregrogain, and, as its distance from Arrochar renders the peak 
rather inaccessible, it has, until quite recently, been regarded as a 
somewhat barren hill. A number of our members, however, have 
made one or two excursions to the north-eastern side of the 
summit, which is very different in character, being very steep and 
rocky ; and, although this is perhaps the least explored part of the 
district, the results of our searches have been already very 
encouraging, and it seems certain that further work in this region 
would add considerably to the list of plants recorded. 
Ben Vane is a rocky mountain, 3,004 feet high, with a steep 
southern face towards Coiregrogain, and sloping more gradually 
toward the north. Nothing of outstanding interest is known to 
occur upon this peak, but its rock-ledges afford shelter to many 
of the most interesting plants of the district, and, perhaps, its most 
attractive feature is that the special haunts of these plants are more 
