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After a very pleasant and enjoyable day on the hill, we 

 returned to Crianlarich in time to get the train to Tyndrum, 

 which we reached in good time for dinner — all highly 

 delighted with our day's excursion. 



Friday, 9 th August. — To-day the members of the Club 

 remaining at Tyndrum were reduced to five. Dr. Stuart, 

 botanised in the neighbourhood of the village ; Mr. Gunn 

 and Mr. Lindsay went to Beinn Laoigh ; whilst Mr. Potts 

 and I went to Lochan Bhe, 



Dr. Stuart found several interesting plants, but none 

 that the Club had not previously gathered in the same 

 district. Unfortunately the day was wet and stormy, and 

 a thick mist covered the hills to their very base. This 

 greatly interfered with the success of the Beinn Laoigh 

 party. They gathered, however, A'rabis petrcca, Lamk. ; 

 Draba incana, L. ; Gerastium alpinum, L. ; Arenaria 

 Chcrleri, Benth, ; Juncits triglumis, L. ; J. castaneus, L. ; 

 Kolresia caricina, Willd. ; Carcx capillaris, L. ; C. pulla. 

 Good. 



In Lochan Bhe we gathered Snhularia aquatica, L. ; 

 Lobelia. Dortmanna, L, ; Utricularia minor, L. ; Jiincus 

 hvfonius, L. ; and hoetcs lacustris, L. 



My principal object in going to Lochan Bhe was to 

 gather specimens of a submerged plant which was first 

 gathered by the Club in 1891, and again in 1894 I 

 gathered the same plant ; and as considerable doubt existed 

 in the minds of several of the members resrardino- the 

 species of this submerged plant, I was anxious to obtain 

 good specimens both for drying and for growing, for the 

 purpose of ascertaining the species. 



Specimens of this plant were sent to Bennett, of Croy- 

 den, in 1891, who pronounced it Scirpits fluitans, L. Dr. 

 John H. Wilson, after a microscopic examination of the 

 plant, came to the same opinion. Notwithstanding these 

 authoiities, some of the members had doubts about its 

 being Scirpus fiuitans. It was very different from the 

 typical form of that plant, and, moreover, after a careful 

 search round the margin of the loch, no trace of Scirpus 

 fluitans could be seen. On the present occasion I was able 

 to make more careful observations regarding this plant. 

 It grows in deep water from 2 to 5 feet deep — generally 



