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Ben Sguliaird, 3058 feet in height ; Stob Gaibhre, 2000 

 feet; An Grinan, 1795 feet; also, Lochan-na-Fola, at an ele- 

 vation of 1170 feet ; Cairn Deirg, 2000 feet; Ben Traochaidh, 

 2883 feet, on the north-west side of Glen Creran ; a moun- 

 tain to the eastward of it, not named, 2250 feet ; Beinn 

 Fhionnlaidh, 3139 feet ; and Fasnacloich woods, with their 

 small but very beautiful waterfalls ; and the head of Loch 

 Creran. 



On the southern side of the Ure the mountains are mostly 

 granitic, while on the northern or Ballahulish side of the 

 glen slate seems to prevail. 



On these mountains, which show many evidences of ice 

 action, are to be seen numbers of travelled or perched 

 boulders, some of them of large size. One near Fasuacloich 

 Loch bears two small Scotch firs on its top, and is well 

 known to geologists ; another noticed on Cairn Deirg, weigh- 

 ing many tons, was supported on several small stones by 

 which it was lifted entirely from the gi'ound. 



Of the 378 plants marked by Mr Bennett on the London 

 catalogue as already recorded in the Watsonian county in 

 which Glenure Kes, there were identified 226 ; besides these, 

 there were also identified 59 plants not hitherto recorded, 

 making a total of 285 plants, classified under fifty-seven 

 orders. 



Of purely alpine plants we found very few, and those 

 forms most ordinarily met with. In fact, the whole district, 

 botanically considered, is a very poor one. The Saxifrages 

 noted were — S. oppositifolia, steUaris, aizoides, hypnoides. 



On Ben Fhionnlaidh and Ben Sguliaird there was a large 

 quantity of Gnaphalium supinum, but all in fruit. 



On Ben Fraochaidh we found good specimens of Tofieldia 

 palustris, also in fruit. 



The difference in the richness and variety of the Bread- 

 albane mountains, with their mica-schist, and the Glenure 

 mountains, with Kttle else than hard, rough granite, was dis- 

 tinctly noticeable. Yet the climate must be almost precisely 

 similar, and being in close proximity, the paucity of the 

 flora seems to be simply a question of soil. 



One find I would mention was made at Lochan-na-Fola, 

 viz., — Malaocis paludosa. For this inconspicuous plant we 

 had been looking more or less every day, when Mr Grieve 



