188 BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS MADE BY 
The Astragalus had flowered early, and only a few specimens 
were procured in blossom. 
Returned to the inn about 6.30 p.m. 
Saturday, 12th August 1854. 
Left the inn this morning at 8 o’clock in two carriages, and 
proceeded to the foot of Loch Callater, thence walked to rocks 
in Glen Callater and Glen Candlich (Cean-mohr?). The day 
became very wet and misty, and after spending three or four 
hours on the rocks, and being thoroughly wet, we returned to the 
inn about 4.30 p.m. 
The plants gathered were (besides lower cryptogams) :— 
Thalictrum alpinum Salix Lapponum 
Subularia aquatica », arbutifolia 
Saussurea alpina » reticulata 
Hieracium (many forms) Carex rupestris 
Lobelia Dortmanna "eon 
Salix venulosa | »  Stictocarpa 
Monday, 14th August 1854. 
The morning being misty we postponed our trip to Ben na 
Mac Dhu. The whole party (with the exception of Mr. Bell, who 
went fishing) proceeded in a large car, accompanied by Mr. 
Esson, the accountant, to visit Canlochan. The car took the 
party a little beyond a bridge about eight miles from Castleton, 
on the Spital of Glenshee road. The party ascended the hill 
and visited the Canlochan rocks. 
In the Glen we picked the following plants :— 
Draba incana Hieracium forms 
Cochlearia forms Sonchus alpinus about 6 or 
Cerastium alpinum 8 specimens in flower) 
Dryas octopetala Pyrola peers 
Saxifraga nivalis » Minor 
»» _ Stellaris Gentiana nivalis (sparingly) 
es aizoides Veronica humifusa 
os hypnoides (with ” alpina 
large flower saxatilis (sparingly 
Erigeron alpinus “in flower er) 
