108 ON THE FLORA OF SKYE. 
- Lecanora badia,* picea (Dicks.), Nyl. "This differs from the type by 
the thallus and the apothecia being pitch-black, spores oblong, 
0:009-0-011 mm. long. It is ev viii Lichen piceus of Dickson’s 
Crypt. Fasc. 4, p. 22, t. 12, fig. 5, but does not appear to have been 
noticed since as a British Lichen, till I gathered it last autumn ¢ on 
Morrone 
Zsidiu ocellata,* preponens, Nyl.; thallus yellow, areolate or gra- 
nulate-verruculose, apothecia subinnate, rugulose, immarginate; spores 
0:015-7 mm. long, 0:008-0:010 mm. thick. Not uncommon on 
stones of the railway wall between Nigg and Cove, on the coast of 
Kincardineshire, south of Aberdeen. July, 1868 
ON THE FLORA OF SKYE. 
By M. A. Lawson, Esq, M.A., 
oe Professor of Botany, Oxford. 
Notwithstanding the number of people who yearly travel through 
the Isle of Skye, there has never yet appeared any published list of its 
indigenous plants. The following, while it makes no pretensions to 
completeness, may, it is hoped, afford to future travellers in those re- 
gions some assistance in determining what species are new, and what 
to be expected. 
Our party consisted of Professor Oliver, Mr. Fox, and myself; and 
our stay in the island a fortnight, the last week in July and the first of 
August. We took the steamer from Glasgow to Portree ; thence by a 
small boat to Steinscholi, a little village situated a short iia from 
Loch Staffin, a shallow bay in the north-east of Skye. From this 
place we botanized the Quirang and Storr, together with the range of 
mountains stretching between the two. 
Thence by Uig to Dunvegan, which we made our head-quarters 
while investigating the botanical treasures of M‘Leod’s Tables, Dunve- 
gan Head, and the woods surrounding the castle. 
From Dunvegan we journeyed.by mail to Sligachan, and, while 
there, devoted two days to the Coolins, and two to the red cone and 
ridge of Glamaig and Glamer. One day at Broadford, and three at 
Kyle Akin, finished our tour. 
The following are the panii which a comparison of our list with 
