94. BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS MADE BY 
Saturday, 4th August 1849. 
Left Aberdeen about 7 a.m., after breakfast, by the Ballater 
mail, in which we had booked nine outside places. 
Reached Ballater about 1 p.m.; met Dr. Dickie and got 
specimen of Diphyscitum foliosum collected by Mr. Cruikshank. 
I lunched with Dickie. Party dined at Monaltrie Arms. I 
called on Dr. Martin, who with his wife and children was residing 
at Ballater for his health. From Ballater proceeded by coach to 
Braemar and reached it about 4.30. After arranging matters and 
having tea-dinner took a walk along banks of Dee; remarked 
especially the following plants :— 
Genista anglica (in flower 
and fruit) 
Potentilla alpestris (very low 
down near the Dee) 
Saxifraga aizoides 
Solidago Virgaurea 
Carduus heterophyllus 
Hieracium Lawsoni 
Pyrola media (in flower) 
Trientalis europza (in flower) 
Polygonum viviparum 
Rumex aquaticus 
Humulus Lupulus (Callater 
Bridge) 
Hieracium murorum 
“ prenanthoides 
e denticulatum 
Monday, 6th August 1849. 
This day the whole party except Mr. Stewart, who was laid 
up with a dysenteric attack, went to Little Craigendal. They 
crossed the ferry and walked through the fir woods on the banks 
of the Dee, following the stream which comes from Ben-a-bourd. 
In the woods are abundance of ant-hills, which when stirred up 
with a stick give out pungent vapours of formic acid. Pyrola media, 
Lycopodium clavatum, and Genista anglica were picked on the way. 
At the point where the third large stream joins the Ben-a- 
bourd water the party turned to the right and proceeded towards 
Craigendal under the guidance of Cattanach, one of the Duke of 
Leeds’ gamekeepers, who is an intelligent person and has’ 
acquired some knowledge of the general aspect of the rare plants 
in the vicinity. William Macintosh, another of the Duke’s 
servants, accompanied the party to carry plants for the Botanic 
Garden of Edinburgh. Before reaching Craigendal the following 
specimens were gathered :— 
Rubus Chamzmorus 
Cornus suecica 
Betula pubescens 
Salix venulosa 
Vaccininm uliginosum 
Tofieldia palustris 
