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he had been up 98 times. The last time but one that I was up this 

 Mecca of British botanists, a frequent guest of Ewing's, our mutual 

 friend Dr Braithwaite, the veteran bryologist, was with us, but he did 

 not attempt to go to the summit. Ewing had also crossed the border 

 to visit with me some of the mountains of Yorkshire and Wales. He 

 also visited Norway several times to study the alpine plants. I had 

 the good fortune to go with him the last time he was there, and for 

 above a month we saw a host of treasures. He seemed to miss 

 nothing with his aquiline eye, and the reader can imagine his pleasure 

 as a sedge-lover when walking over and about countless numbers of 

 Car ex ustulata, C. atrata, C. vaginata, C. misandra, C. limosa, C. 

 alpina, C. incurva, C. chordorrhiza, C. bicolor, C. alpicola, C. 

 microglochin, C. capitata, Eriophorum alpinum, E. Scheuchzeri, Elyna 

 Bellardi, Kobresia bipartita, etc., to say nothing of all the other 

 uncommon alpines. He usually carried his camera, and when he was 

 photographing an ecological association, with Eriophorum Scheuchzeri 

 as the dominant plant, one inquisitive bull out of a herd that was 

 roaming these mountains made up to us, and as we stood on guard 

 with two six-feet alpenstocks, it contented itself with superintending 

 within a few feet. We left it still staring after us. The Norwegian 

 district we liked best was the Dovrefjeld, with the Kongsvold as the 

 stopping place. This locality is about 3000 feet above sea-level, at the 

 latitude of S. Iceland, and abounds in alpine plants. He also spent 

 some time at other places like Lillehammer and Trondhjem. 



He was particularly interested in alpine sedges, and had noticed 

 the zonal forms of the same species. Several of his papers were 

 devoted to them. He was a worker at topographical botany, too, 

 and published several papers on this subject. He also devoted much 

 time to the bryophytes, particularly to the Hepatics, lists of which he 

 published for certain areas, and if Macvicar's comprehensive work on 

 their distribution in Scotland is consulted, his name will be found as 

 one of the chief contributors for those counties he had visited. In 

 the Glasgow Naturalist for September, 1913, a list of 21 of his papers 

 are enumerated. Mention is also there made of another very useful 

 paper of his, "The Glasgow Catalogue of Native and Established 

 Plants." This is a full list of the plants of S.W. Scotland, with their 

 Watsonian distribution. This was published in 1892, and enumerated 

 1515 species. In 1899 he published an extended list with 1959 

 species. He amassed a large herbarium of British and Norwegian 



