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land, and took up our quarters at the Station Hotel, Invershiu. 

 This hotel is beautifully situated on the north side of the 

 Kyle of Sutherland. It has recently been newly furnished, 

 and is now one of the most charming inns in the Highlands. 

 Here we were very well entertained by Mr and Mrs 

 Mackenzie, our host and hostess. Nothing could exceed 

 their kindness and attention, and here we had all the luxuries 

 of a private mansion m the city. We reached Invershin 

 about 3 P.M., and so had time to examine the flora along 

 this part of the Kyle of Sutherland. Among the places 

 visited were the Falls of the Shin. Of the plants observed 

 may be mentioned : — Trollius curopcvus, Linn. ; Eeseda lutea, 

 Linn., — growing on the railway bank above Invershin 

 station; Viola lutea, var. amcena, Syme ; Drosera anglica, 

 Huds. This species was the common one in those districts 

 of Sutherland visited by the Club. Filago minima, Fr.; Senecio 

 sylvaticus, Linn. , var. lividns, Sm. This form is not un- 

 common on the roadsides in this district of Sutherland. 

 The late Professor Graham in 1827 found the same variety 

 " abundant on the roadsides near Lairg," in the present district. 

 Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi, Spreng. ; Pyrola media, Sw., — in 

 beautiful flower ; Trientalis europcea, Linn. ; Scrophularia 

 nodosa, Linn. ; Scutellaria galericulata, Linn. ; Populus tremula, 

 Linn. ; Lister a ovata, R. Br. ; Sparganium minimum, Fr. ; 

 Triglochvn palustrc, Linn. ; Potamogeton natans, Linn. ; 

 JSriophorum latifolium, Hoppe ; Carex glauca, Murr. ; C. 

 binervis, Bm. ; Melica nutans, Lmn. ; Br achy podium sylvaticum, 

 Eoem. ; Polypodiurn Phegopteris, Linn, ; P. Dryopteris, Linn. ; 

 and Selaginella selaginoides, Gray. 



Monday, 30th July. — We left Invershin this morning about 

 eight o'clock for Tongue. We posted all the way, — about 

 45 miles. We went by Lairg and Altnaharrow. The day 

 was fine, and we had a pleasant drive. The gTeater part of 

 the road was rather dreary. We passed through vast tracts 

 of moorland, which tended to make the journey somewhat 

 monotonous. We reached Tongue early in the afternoon, 

 and took up our quarters in Campbell's Hotel. Before dinner 

 we had a walk down to the shore, and observed the following 

 plants : — Cochlearia danica, Linn. ; and Aster Tripolium, 

 Linn. ; Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum, Linn.; A. Trichomancs, 

 Linn. In a ditch on the roadside near Tongue we ob- 



