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346 LATE (early?) flowering plants. [February, 



Poa minor. 3. Loclinagar. "^ 



Poa laxa. 3. Lochnagar. ' 



Polypodium alpestre. 1. Ben-na-muic-dlmi, Ben-na-buird. 2, Glass 

 Meal, Corry of Loch Ceande£ 3. Lochnagar/ 



Polypodium aljpestre, var. flexile, I believe I gathered on the I'ocky 

 shelves of Ben-na-muic-dhui, ascending from Loch Ann ; but the plants 

 virere too young to decide anything with certainty at present. 



Cryptogramma crispa. 1. Ben-na-buird. 2. Corry of Loch Ceander. 

 3. Lochnagar.^ — (This Eern is by no means commQn qi]l the Grampian 

 Hills, although so abundant in North Wales, and still more so in the 

 English Lake District. I botanized for seven weeks in Braemar without 

 meeting with it at aU, and then in only one of the localities given above, 

 viz. Lochnagar, where it grows in the greatest profusion at the foot of the 

 great corry.) 



*Polystic7ium Loncldtis. 1. The Sluggan. 



^Lycopodium annotinum. 1. Glen Cuaich, Little Craig-an-dal. 2. Glen 

 Ey. 3. Lochnagar.V ■-Cja^^ ^^/-Jv- 



Lycopodium alpinum and selaginoides. Passim. 



Equisetum palustre, var. alpinum. 2. Ascent of Glass Meal. 



The above list is compiled from the various catalogues given 

 in Professor Macgillivray's book, conjointly with my own obser- 

 vations. In tlie majority of instances I have been able to verify 

 all the Professor's cited localities,, but I must make an exception 

 in the case of Cairntoul and Braeriach, on which mountains I 

 have never botanized at alb and also with regard to a few parti- 

 cular species from Lochnagar, Ben-na-buird, and the Corry of 

 Loch Ceander. A mere glance at the different localities given 

 will show what rich botanizing grounds some particular spots are, 

 as Little Craig-an-dal, the Corry of Loch Ceander, etc. It may 

 be worth while to describe those which possess most interest in a 

 botanical point of view a little more in detail. 



LATE (EARLY?) FLOWERING PLANTS. 



List of Flowers found in blossom in the neighbourhood of Upton 

 and Binstead, near Ryde, middle of December, 1857. By 

 Harriet Beisly. 



Bellis perennis. Veronica agrestis. Cornus sanguinea. 



Ranunculus bulbosus. Veronica serpyllifolia. Tormentilla officinalis, 



Prunula vulgaris. Linum angustifolium. Potentilla reptans. 



