Ixx Procecdingn of the Botanical Soddy 



gi'ow on the gravelly debris ; few were seen on the present occasion. 

 On the rocks Saxifraga nivalis, associated with the commoner 

 varieties, was in abundance. Sonchm alpimis, without flowers, was 

 gathered on the right hand rocks, well out of the reach of ordinary 

 collectors. Erigeron alpiMum, Saussurea alpina, Dryas odopetala, 

 Pyrola rotundifolia, and Gentiana nivalis were gathered, the latter 

 sparingly. Aspjidium lonchitis (the cut leaved variety) and the other 

 mountain ferns were seen in considerable abundance. The holly 

 fern is in great beauty and luxuriance among the loose rocky debris 

 under the corry, associated with occasional specimens of Polypodium 

 alpestre, and other ferns. We were not a little astonished to observe 

 the Swiss Erinus alpinus, Primula auricula, and Myosotis alpedris 

 on the boggy soil covering some of the rocks, all evidently intro- 

 duced. Any botanist capable of perpetrating a hoax of this kind is 

 unworthy of notice. The rarer plants were rather scarce, but the 

 commoner alpines grew in great profusion. AVlien at the Sonduis 

 station, we espied a human figure high up among the rocks watching 

 our motions. At first we considered he was the forester sent to turn 

 us out of the corry. However, after some time, this person scrambled 

 down to lis, when we were at the Gentian station, and said he was a 

 member of the Dundee Naturalists' Club. He was made glad by 

 receiving specimens of " The Gentian," which he had never seen 

 before, although he had often heard of the Canlochan plants, this 

 being his first visit. After parting with us he was going to Braemar 

 over the hills by Loch Callater, and had a rough walk before Idm, 

 but the weather was fine, and the hills free from mist. Our party 

 separated somehow among the rocks^ one section scrambling up the 

 centre of the corry to the tablelands above, where, skirting Glas 

 Mool, and proceeding due west, they reached the Braemar road at 

 a point near a keeper's house, where with Professor Balfour in 

 former years we ascended the stream, nine miles from Braemar. 

 The rest of the party kept more to the south, and struck the Cairn- 

 well near the watering place. 



We had engaged the conveyances to meet us at the top of the 

 pass to take us back to our inn, and we reached the Spittal, all 

 greatly delighted with the day's excursion. 



Gle7i Taitneach and Glas Tulichan, 3400 /ee^. 



Although rather stiff' with our exertions on the previous day, 

 we started on 31st July on foot for Glen Taitneach and Glas 

 Tulachan. In the glen we were joined by Robertson, keeper 

 to Colonel Farquharson of Invercauld, Avho acted as our guide upon 



