12 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
p. 78 (1813); Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 1907 (1817); Bot. Reg. 
B34 (1818); Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. p. 187. 
I. alpina Web. & Mohr. Beitr. z. Poa agameaN SS i. p. 68 (1805). 
An Oriental species (Caucasus, &c.). 
I. BARBATA Wall. list and herb. 2961 (1828); DeCand. Prodr. v. 
p. 470; C. B. Clarke, Composite Indice, p. 122. 
1, grandiflora Hook. f. Fi. Brit. Ind. vii. p. 294, non Willd. 
A Western Himalayan plant. 
NORTH-EAST HIGHLAND PLANTS (1903). 
By tue Rev. W. Movie Rogers, F.L.S. 
notes refer only to plants seen last summer in the 
Wasson finilica of Banff (94), Elgin (95), and eg (96), 
E. Hi 
which together constitute the Sub- Province be ‘Ns ighlands ”’ 
of Cybele Britannica. ‘Strathspey plants ’’ would have been Sitioat 
as accurate a heading, very nearly all the lealiies visited being 
in the siete ae neighbourhood of the Spey, or of one of its 
affluents, R. ven or R. Nethy, at no great sakicine from its 
junction with th 
My first 
sak ‘dens 19-26) was spent at Carrbridge, ga i 
had considerable help in my botanizing from my son, Re 
Rogers. After three nights at Aberlour (Banff), the rest of my oe 
was divided between Nethybridge (June 30-July 15) and egue 
(July 15-27). I thus stayed for five weeks in Kasterness, and w 
the help of the two railway lines oe Highland R. and the N.S. R. ds 
which have their junction at Aviemore, I explored a fair amount of 
ground in that vice-county, and also made a few incursions into 
the counties of Elgin and Banff. 
ackwardness of the season, ee the height above sea-level 
at which I was staying all my time in Easterness, pain y go far 
to account for the comparatively niall umber (about 3638) of the 
species seen. While Carrbridge stands at over 900 ft., Nethy- 
bridge and Kingussie are both over 700, as are all my other Easter- 
ness localities except Culloden Moor, which is only 440. Hence 
the number of plants common in England for which I searched in 
vain was greater than I had siiosied and Culloden Moor was the 
with the one further remarkable exception of Kincraig, where, 
by Loch Insh, at about 800 ft., my son pointed out to me some 
vigorous and characteristic bushes of Rubus Rogersti. From Nethy, 
however, I was able to visit some Elgin and Banff localities at a 
lower level (the saan being Advie, at shout 650 ft.), and these 
ded in all seven bramble parte 
The two glans points (both Haart reached by me 
were by the railway stations at Rakin (1029 ft.) and Dalwhinnie 
(1174 4). At each of these, within about a mile of the station, 
