PROFESSOk JOHN HUTTON BALFOUR. 385 
Clova. 
Wednesday, 2nd August 18635. 
Party, consisting of J. H. Balfour; John K. Duncanson, W. R. 
M‘Nab, F. Naylor, Gilbert C. A. Stuart, and M. Watson, met at 
the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railway Station on Wednes- 
day, 2nd August, at 9.45 a.m., and proceeded to Kirriemuir. 
Return tickets, 7s. 6d. From Kirriemuir the whole party went 
in conveyances, leaving Kirriemuir about 3 and reaching Clova 
about 6 p.m. They were accommodated at Mr. Barnes’ inn— 
the Ogilvy Arms. 
Thursday, 3rd August 1865. 
Started at 8 a.m. in two conveyances for Acharn (Robert 
Welsh). Thence walked up Glen Dole and by Jock’s Road 
along the banks of the White Water to a point not far from 
Canness. Visited Little Gilrannoch, and returned by the Astra- 
galus cliff and Glen Dole to Clova, which was reached about 
7pm. The party intended to go to Canlochan, but they found 
the distance too great. All the ordinary alpine plants were 
collected, and among special plants were the following :— 
Cochlearia officinalis 
alpina 
Armeria maritima (alpine 
; form) 
Lychnis alpina Veronica alpina 
Cherleria sedoides 
Sibbaldia procumbens 
Dryas octopetala 
Epilobium alsinifolium 
i alpinum 
Cornus suecica 
Erigeron alpinus 
Gnaphalium supinum 
Mulgedium alpinum (in full 
flower, below the water- 
fall in a river not far 
from the Astragalus 
cliff) 
Juncus castaneus 
Carex aquatilis 
»  capillaris 
Alopecurus alpinus 
Phleum alpinum 
Asplenium viride 
Polypodium alpestre (in 
various states) 
