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The localised records (assuming that the plants are 

 correctly named), which appear to be new to the \dce- 

 county, are Banunculus Lingua, Kintail and Gairloch. 

 (Not yet seen by me in the county. Large forms of R. 

 Flammula are sometimes so named.) Trollius eiwopceus, 

 West Eoss ! Corydalis claviculata, Melvaig, by Gairloch. 

 Arahis pctrcea, Gairloch. (Can this be correct ? It is a 

 mountain plant, but is occasionally brought down to low 

 level by mountain streams. It occurs on hills at the 

 head of Loch Maree.) Drciba rupestris, Ben Sleugach. 

 (If correctly named, an interesting record, but small forms 

 of D. incana are sometimes mistaken for it.) Lcpidium 

 Smithii and Droscra anglica, Gairloch ! Hypericum caly- 

 cinum, Balmacarra (planted, of course). Paibus corylifolius, 

 Glen Shiel. Rosa involuta, Gairloch. Pyrus Aria, " rare, 

 Loch Carron." Scclum Rhodiola, " Baios Bhein, Gairloch." 

 Scdurn Teleplmim, " not common, Gairloch " (a doubtful 

 native). S. anglicum, " rare, Gairloch " (so far as my 

 observation goes, it is a common plant by the coast). 

 Cicuta virosa, Glen Shiel. (I saw CEmmthc crocata there, 

 but Cicuta is recorded from the Hebrides, so it may be 

 correct.) Helosciadiicm nodifiorum, Gairloch. CEnanthe 

 Laclicnalii, Gairloch. Linncca horealis, '' in an island in 

 Loch Maree." Xeither of the last three plants have so 

 far been observed by me in West Eoss. 



The foregoing records are the only ones I have been 

 able to find that relate to West Eoss, but my search has 

 not been of an exhaustive character, and I may have 

 overlooked some paper or work in which the subject has 

 been dealt with. 



After the publication of Mr. H. C. Watson's " Topo- 

 graphical Botany," in which nine counties had no list of 

 common plants recorded, Mr. Watson asked me to visit 

 West Eoss, which was one of these, in order to compile a 

 list of its plants. In the August of 1880 I made my first 

 acquaintance with what proved to be really " a land of moun- 

 tain and flood." I began my expedition at Achnasheen, 

 where (as its name implies) all the winds and a good deal 

 of the wet of heaven meet, and walked through a heavy 

 rain to Kinlochewe, gathering Malaxis and noting about 

 a hundred plants on my way. Two days were spent at 



