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FIELD MEETING Sj 1049 
chiefly because of the large number of sand-loving plants uncommon in 
the Midlands generally which are to be found there in a small circum- 
scribed area, and also because it was of easy access by car from the 
?k)uth and West Midlands. The total number attending was 36, 21 of 
whom were members of the B.S.B.T. and the remainder were members 
of the Birmingham Natural History Society. The common was well 
explored, but no new records were made j this was not surprising over 
such well-worked ground. There were hundreds of plants of Silene 
co7iica in its well-known locality by the roadside, despite the forebod- 
ings of earlier botanists that road work might soon destroy this Wor- 
cestershire rarity. 
A short visit was paid later in the day to Grimley on Severn, where 
a few of the more interesting plants of the Severn YSlley were seen. 
In a pond at Grimley, Prof. T. G. Tutin demonstrated to an eager 
audience all three species of the flote grass, Glyceria fluitans, plicata 
and declinata. This excursion gave an opportunity for the less experi- 
enced local botanists to meet, in the field, botanists with an extremely 
wide and varied knowledge of British botany. T believe that this ex- 
cursion was well worth while for this reason alone. 
R. C. L. B. 
JUNE 11th TO 12th. BREADALBANE. 
Leaders-. Miss M. S. C.\mpbell and Mr Thomas Poore. 
The meeting, arranged primarily for Scottish members, took place 
in the Aberfeldy district on Saturday, June 11th, with an optional 
second day. 
The following members took part: — Mrs Bull, Miss Milne Farquhar- 
son, iMrs Gibby^ Miss Kennedy, Miss McCallum-Webster, Mrs Boyd 
Watt, and M&ssrs W. D. Ogilvie, R. i\I. Payne, M. E. D. Poore, H. G. 
Watson, and A. J. Wilmott. 
We were very pleased to welcome as guests: — Miss Dunk, Mi.ss 
Jauncy, Mrs MacBrinn, Mrs Ogilvie, Mrs Poore and Messrs J. Aitken, 
J. Crapper, Len Fullerton, D. Spence, J. White, J. Wood and also Mr 
T. Poore, who acted as joint leader. 
The exceptionally beautiful day lured all participants to the slopes 
of Schiehallion, and the more gentle alternative of a walk along the 
banks of Tay and Lyon was abandoned. The party started together 
from Braes of Foss but was later divided into groups and a few people 
set out to reach the summit. 
Tn spite of the early date the early season displayed a number of 
“alpines” in bloom and others in an unusually advanced state. Saxi- 
fraga aizoides in sheltered places was among the former as was Tofieldia 
pnlustris, frequent in flushes around the half-way line. Bubus Chanuie- 
morus, Epilobium alpinum and Polygonum- viviparum were also seen in 
flower, as were the purple Viola Curfisii in the grassy slopes below 
Glengoulandie, where the walk was arranged to finish. Rosettes of 
Sau..ssurea leaves were seen on the north face of the shoulder close to a 
