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Botanical Xotes of a touk in Upper Engadine and 

 South-East Tyrol by three Fellows of the Edinburgh 

 Botanical Society. By the Eev. George Gunn, M.A., 

 Stichill Manse, Kelso. 



(Read 13th April Ls99.) 



This paper has been communicated to the Edinburgh 

 Botanical Society on the invitation of the Council. 

 According to wise traditions, the Society wishes to be 

 kept in touch with the botanical researches of its 

 members in other lands. Though vouched by one 

 signature, this paper has had the benefit of careful 

 revision by W. B. Boyd, of Faldonside, and the Eev. David 

 Paul, LL.I). Without their aid the writer would have 

 been even more reluctant to undertake a botanical survey 

 of the tour. 



Pleaching Munich on Thursday, 21st July 1898, we took 

 a bee-line for the Botanic Gardens, which are prettily 

 situated near the Crystal Palace. 



As we were specially in search of Primulas, the 

 gardener obligingly showed us his collection in the Eock 

 Garden there. The critical specimens, unfortunately for 

 us, had flowered some time before. He, however, gave us 

 an opportunity not to be neglected of closely examining 

 the foliage of Primula jmbescens, Jacq. ; P. discolor, Leyb. ; 

 P. Muretiana, Mor. : P. FUerkcana, Schrad ; P. tirolensis, 

 Schott ; P. viscosa, All. ; and P. oinensis, Thom. (or daonensis, 

 Leyb.) ; and other hybrids. 



We put off' no. time at Innsbruck, where the Botanic 

 Garden rather disappointed us, but where the fissured 

 fronts of the mountains, towering above the town, sorely 

 tempted us to visit them. 



Steinach, on the Brenner Eailway, was our next stopping 

 place. It is a pleasant summer resort, situated among 

 majestic mountains and picturesque ravines. Here the 

 Sills is joined by the impetuous Gschnitz, up whose valley 

 for three hours or more we were to walk. The choice is 

 offered a pedestrian of a high road presenting beautiful 

 views with the disadvantage of being sunny and dusty, or 

 a footpath by the side of a. river through moist meadows. 



