Excursion of the Scottish Alpine Botanical CI ah. 115 



was made by the most of the party. Capt. i^orman and myself, 

 heing rather stiff, botanised Morrone Wood, getting splendid speci- 

 mens of Hijjmiim crista-castrensis, Mdlca nutans, Pyrola media, but 

 failed to find Linnoia horealls, which grows there, as we could not 

 venture high enough, owing to the deer-forest restrictions. 



I am indebted to Mr Arthur Evans, M.A., Cambridge, one of our 

 members, for the complete list of Carices obtained on Loclinagar and 

 Corry Ceann-mohr. 



Carex pmicifora, Lochnagar, 



Carex atrata, Corry Ceann-mohr. 



alpicola, 



aquatilis, 



vulgaris, 



distans, 



fulva, 



hinervis, 



do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do, 

 do. 



dioica, Corry Ceann-mohr, 

 pidicaris, do. 



rupestris, do. 



avails, do, 



stellulata, do, 



curtay do. 



fvigida (new), discovered 

 by the late Mr Sadler. 



Mr Evans picked another Salix in Corry Ceann-mohr, differing in 

 some respects from one which I mentioned, as probably a hybrid 

 between S. Sadleri and *S'. La2oponum, and which as yet has not been 

 critically examined. 



Tlie May Island ; its Archceology ; its Algoid Flora ; its 

 Phanerogams and Higher Cryptogams. By John 

 Ratteay, M.A., B.Sc, Marine Station, Granton, 

 Edinburgh. 



(Read TOth July 1S84.) 



The island of May, according to Government survey, has 

 an area of about 143 square acres, and, although its breadth 

 nowhere exceeds one-third of a mile, it is upwards of a mile 

 in length. 



The word "May" is probably to be referred to a Gothic 

 root signifying " verdure," although others have attributed it 

 to a Celtic root found in the name of an ancient tribe of Mid- 

 landers called the Mteotoi, said to have occupied this and the 

 southern part of Scotland between the walls of Hadrian on 



