l32 A VISIT TU trLliiN CLOVA AMD CALLATKK. 



"2,000 feet a quantity of Linncea horealis was met with in fragrant 

 flower, growing near that lovely moss H. crista-castrensis. Ascending 

 again on to steep ledges Oxijtropis campestris was gathered, in its only 

 British locality, and close by this that rare British fern Woodsia 

 hyperborea, for which so many botanists have hazarded life or limb. 

 Close by grew Ai-ena alpina, Aira alpina, Aira brevifoUa, and other rare 

 alpine plants ; then, searching the rocks of Craig Rennet, which form the 

 north boundary of Glen Phee (itself a western prolongation of the 

 Dole), at the head of which a burn comes sprawling down some three or 

 four hiindred feet, and climbing up the wet shelving rocks on the south 

 side of the burn, another series of alpines was gathered, including the 

 sweet heliotrope scented Saussurea, white and pink flowered Saxifraga 

 ojyjiOsitifoUa, lar^e flowered .S'. hijpnoides and S .spoiiJtemica, Ejiilobhim alsin- 

 ifolium and E. anagallidifoUum, Cochlearia alpina, sweet-scented Pijiola 

 rotundifolia, large plants of Asplenium viride, Pseudnthyrium alpestre, 

 Salix hcrhacea, that smallest British shrub, S. reticulata, with abundant 

 capsules, S. Myrsinites, S. procumbeiis, S. arbutifolia, S. Stuartiana, Foa 

 alpina, Vaccinium ulifiinosiim, mimicking the willows in habit (here I saw 

 it for the first time in flower), Sayina saxatilis, Silene acaulis var. alba, 

 Carex vayinata, C. rigida, C. capillaris, C. flava, C. pallescens, large 

 C atrata, Rhodiola in profusion, Sibbaldia and Rttbiis saxatilis, while on 

 the moorland (above 2,600 feet) Carex aquatilis, C. ritilis, Caltlta minor, 

 Tofieldia, etc., occurred ; in fact, of all the plants recorded for the Dole 

 and Phee, I only missed Carex Grahami. 



Another day was occupied in walking from the kirktowu up Glen 

 Clova to Braedownie, turning eastward by Craig Mellon, and on to 

 Bachnagairn shooting lodge (1,500 feet). Ascending moorland to 

 north-west up to Loch Esk (2,500 feet), thence ascending to western 

 ridge (2,750 feet), and descending to the White Water, I found Phleum 

 alpinum, Caltha minor, Carex aquatilis, C. vitilis, etc. Keep by the side 

 of White Water till it reaches the base of Tolmount, ascend it (3,1-40 

 feet), and then stretching out before is the tine Glen Callater, Lochua- 

 gar, and the Broad Cairn on the east, Carn-y-Glasha and Glas Mheal 

 to the west, while northwards, over Braemar, rise the Aberdeenshire 

 Alps, Ben Avon, etc., with the snow-fields shining on their southern 

 slopes, still unmelted by the August sun. Descending the cliffs of 

 Tolmount (about 500 feet), and then keeping on the west side of Glen 

 Callater, a gathering almost as rich as from the Dole was made, a list 

 of which I will not now detail, but simply enumerate some of the 

 special finds: — Salix lanata, in magnificent condition, overhung the 

 steep rock of a small waterfall (at about 2,500 feet), and near this a 

 single plant of Mulyedium alpinnm. Here too Carex vayinata, and 

 C. Leesii, the latter only an acute-glumed variety of pilulifera, with 

 Cerastium alpestre were gathered, Foa Balj'ourii,Aira alpina, and Juncus 

 castaneus, the latter nine inches high, J. biylumis, etc., were found. 

 Descending to Loch Callater (1,600 feet) Carex ampullacea, Subularia, 

 Isoetes, Callitriche aiitumnalis, etc., were gathered. 



The next day was employed in walking up Glen Callater on the 



