246 BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS MADE BY 
Friday, 21st August 1857. 
This day was spent chiefly in dredging off Holy Island in 
company with Dr. Carpenter. Many good animals were got 
as well as some sea-weeds. On the island abundance of 
Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi. In the evening occupied in fishing. 
Saturday, 22nd August 1857. 
The party broke up this day; most returned to Ayrshire or 
Glasgow, while Mr. M‘Taggart Cowan remained at Invercloy. 
Some plants were picked along the shore. I visited Dr. 
Carpenter at the island and examined the flora partially. 
Tuesday, 25th August 1857. 
Mr. Hugh Cowan, from Thornton, and Mr. M‘Taggart Cowan 
met me at Springbank, and, after picking some sand: plants at 
Brodick, walked up Glen Cloy, where we gathered :— 
Sedum Rhodiola Asplenium viride 
Galium boreale Cystopteris fragilis 
Hymenophyllum Wilsoni (in Polystichum aculeatum 
great abundance) Lastrea Foenisecii 
and several other less rare plants. 
Returned about 6 p.m. Mr. Robert Cowan gathered on Ben 
Gornic the following plants :— 
Viola palustris Galium saxatile 
Alchemilla alpina Vaccinium Vitis- Idea 
+ . conjuncta Veronica officinalis 
Saxifraga stellaris Salix herbacea 
Sedum Rhodiola Juniperus nana 
Thursday, 17th. September 1857. 
Party consisting of Archibald and John Stevenson, William 
Carpenter, and J. H. Balfour left Lamlash at 3 p.m. and 
walked by Whiting Bay and Dippin to Kildonan and thence to 
Lag. Called on Mr. Macrae at East Kilmorie, near Pladda, at 
