418 BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS MADE BY 
The best part of Ben Alder is the great corrie or tarn above 
Loch Alder. The way to go to it is to land a few miles 
above the shooting-lodge and then walk up by the side of 
Ben Alder ; the rocks near the snow should also be examined. 
This station on Ben Alder is the best now known for Polypodium 
frexile. 
Lord Henry Bentinck is very particular about the deer- 
forest. We had permission from him. His forester, Mr. Clark, 
was very obliging, and gave us assistance in our work. This was 
a very fatiguing day, eighteen or nineteen hours being occupied. 
Thursday, 8th August 1867. 
The weather was not very promising to-day, alternate showers 
and sunshine. The party did not breakfast till 9, and spent 
some time putting their plants in order. They then divided into 
groups and went to different places. Fraser and Christie went 
to the rocks on the side of Loch Ericht, Astley and myself 
walked to Cat Lodge to see Mr. and Mrs, Armitstead, but they 
had gone fishing to Loch Laggan. We took lunch at Cat Lodge 
and then returned, thus walking twelve miles. Mr. Coore 
examined a corrie two or three miles from Dalwhinnie on the 
right hand of the road going to Dalnaspidal, and it seems to 
be worthy of further examination. He found :— 
Silene acaulis Pyrola media 
Dryas octopetala (in flower) Salix arbutifolia 
Sibbaldia procumbens » herbacea 
Saxifraga oppositifolia Habenaria viridis 
pnoides Tofieldia palustris 
Hieractim alpinum Juncus trifidus 
ee Lawsoni Luzula spicata 
Messrs. Fraser and Christie visited the rocks on the left side of 
Loch Ericht going over, called Black Rock, and found Poly- 
stichum Lonchitis, Botrychium Lunaria, Littorella lacustris, 
Asplenium viride, Carex vagtnata. 
Dr. Lauder Lindsay left for Perth at 1 o'clock, and Mr. Astley 
for Edinburgh at 4.30. 
