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Ox THE HePATIC.E OF BALMORAL, AbERDEEXSHIRE. 



By G. Stabler. 



(Read 12th Juue 1902.) 



In the year 1884 it was my privilege for about a fort- 

 night iu the month of July to be the guest of my friend 

 Mr. J. Michie, His Majesty's present Commissioner on the 

 Balmoral Estate. Similarly in 1894, a little later in the 

 season, for about three weeks, I again visited Balmoral. 

 It was during these two periods that I spent a considerable 

 portion of my time in making collections of Masci and 

 Heimticcv. 



It is on these gatherings, and on specimens collected 

 by Mr. Michie during the winter and spring preceding my 

 first visit, that this paper is founded. Perhaps I ought to 

 explain that, although I have entitled this paper " On the 

 Hepatifce of Balmoral," I have not shrunk from incor- 

 porating in my list a few habitats not strictly within the 

 Balmoral domain. 



Permit me to give a brief outline of one of these 

 digressions. Lea\dng Danzig Shiel, accompanied by Mr. 

 Michie, on the evening of 14th July 1884, we called for 

 a short time at Corriemulzie, and botanised in its lower 

 part. We then drove on as far as the Duke of Fife's 

 shooting-box, near the junction of Glen Lui and Glen 

 Derry, and thence walked to the cottage of the keeper, 

 who gave us a " Highland welcome." In the twilight of 

 the evening we had a stroll on the site of the old Mar 

 Forest, and here on a decaying pine I found beautiful 

 specimens of Junrj. Helleriana, which had previously been 

 found in April in the Ballochbuie Forest by Mr. Michie, 

 this beiug, so far as I am aware, its first discovery in 

 Scotland. A little after one o'clock a.m., along with the 

 keeper, we started up the Derry, and reached the head of 

 the glen at daybreak. Not far from the base of a huge 

 precipice of Ben MacDhui, we soon found Jung. Doniana 

 and Scapania ornithopodioidcs. "We were now on ground 

 made classic by such eminent botanists as Donn, Hooker, 

 Walker- Arnott, Greville, and Gardiner, — to say nothing of 

 -others of later date. After lunching on the lee-side of the 



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