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A VISIT TO GLEN CLOVA AND CALLATER. 
flower of Dryas octopetala, the beautiful Veronica saxatilU, the rare 
sedge Carex rupestris, and Gnaphalium norvegiciim. Still higher occurs 
Mulgedium alpinum; and here too Professor G-raham first found 
Astragalus alpinus in Britain. By the stream sides grew Cerastium 
alpestre, Juncus biglumis, Hieracium Laiosoni, and H. calendtdijiorum; and 
now again on the ledges, on one occasion so narrow that progress could 
only be made crab-like (sideways) on one’s knees, we gather Carex Leesii, 
Hieracium eximium, Carex atrata, Salix reticulata, etc. All about the 
Dole were splendid fronds of Aspidium Lonchitis varying from two inches 
to two feet in length, while Salix Lapponurn, S. petr(Ea, S. Andersoniana, 
Gnaphalium supinum, G.sylvaticum\Si.r. alpestre, Juncus trifidus, and Carex 
atrata were again and again met with. Coming to Craig Bennet, at about 
2,000 feet a quantity of Linncea borealis was met with in fragrant 
flower, growing near that lovely moss H. crista-castrensis. Ascending 
again on to steep ledges Oxytropis campestris was gathered, in its only 
British locality, and close by this that rare British fern Woodsia 
hyperborea, for which so many botanists have hazarded life or limb. 
Close by grew Arena alpina, Aira alpina, Aira brevifolia, and other rare 
alpine plants; then, searching the rocks of Craig Kennet,which form the 
north boundary of Glen Phee (itself a western prolongation of the 
Dole), at the head of which a burn comes sprawling down some three or 
four hundred feet, and climbing up the wet shelving rocks on the south 
side of the burn another series of alpines was gathered, including the 
sweet heliotrope scented Saussurea, white and pink flowered Saxifraga 
oppositifoUa, l&rge flowered S. hypnoides and S.sponhemica,Epilobium alsin- 
ifolium and E. anagallidifolium, Cochlearia alpma, sweet-scented Pyrola 
rotundifolia, large plants of Asplenium viride, Pseudathyrium alpestre, 
Salix herbacea, that smallest British shrub, S. reticulata, with abundant 
capsules, S. Myrsinites, S. procumbens, S. arbutifolia, S. Stuartiana, Poa 
alpina, Vaccinium uliginosum, mimicking the willows in habit (here I saw 
it for the first time in flower), Sagina saxatilis, Silene acaulis var. alba, 
Carex vaginata, C. rigida, C. capillaris, C. Jiava, C. pallescens, large 
C. atrata, Rhodiola in profusion, Sibbaldia and Rubus saxatilis, while on 
the moorland (above 2,600 feet) Carex aquatilis, G. vitilis, Caltlia minor, 
Tojieldia, etc., occurred; in fact, of all the plants recorded for the Dole 
and Phee, I only missed Carex Grahami. 
Another day was occupied in walking from the’ kirktown up Glen 
Clova to Braedownie, turning eastward by Craig Mellon, and on to 
Bachnagairn shooting lodge (1,500 feet). Ascending moorland to 
north-west up to Loch Esk (2,500 feet), thence ascending to western 
ridge (2,750 feet), and descending to the White Water, I found Phleuin 
alpinum, Caltha minor, Carex aquatilis, C. vitilis, etc. Keep by the side 
of White Water till it reaches the base of Tolmount, ascend it (3,140 
feet), and then stretching out before is the fine Glen Callater, Loclma- 
gar, and the Broad Cairn on the east, Carn-y-Glasha and Glas Mheal 
to the west, while northwards, over Braemar, rise the Aberdeenshire 
Alps, Ben Avon, etc., with the snow-fields shining on their southern 
slopes, still unmelted by the August sun. Descending the cliffs of 
