xl PROCEEDINGS-PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NAT T RAL SCIENCE. 
beautiful day. On the way various interesting plants were met with. 
For example, the turf of some fields seemed to ' e g ; efly composed 
of one of the alpine sedges, Carex capillaris. A L tV b^e of Ben 
Vuroch Kobresia caricina was seen in some abundance a. ’ Tuncus 
alpinus was also found. At last we got into the head of C .. N mate 
and could get a glimpse of Glen Loch, at the end of which c.p^eme * 
the Cairngorm Mountains, white from top to bottom with freshly-; n 
snow, a striking spectacle in July in Scotland. Reaching Loch Loci: 
we examined the rocks and soon found the Oxytropis in abundance. 
Though, as usual, its flowers were mostly yellowish in colour, some 
specimens were found with purplish-pink flowers. The other plants 
on the rocks were not of great interest, though some were not very 
common species. At eleven a.m. our botanical work was completed, 
and at noon we set off on our return to Killiecrankie, whence we 
returned to Perth well pleased, but rather sleepy. It may be 
mentioned that, on the preceding day, Mr. Meldrum gathered the 
other British Oxytropis , O. uralensis , thus gathering both species 
within 36 hours, a feat probably never accomplished in Britain 
before. 
Another excursion of interest was made at the end of July and 
beginning of August to the Killin district. As the botany of this 
has been so often described I need not give a detailed account of it. 
One day was spent on Ben Lawers, and almost all special plants of 
that rich hill seen. In addition, one plant of a very rare and interest¬ 
ing species was found. This is a Triticum , which was first found on 
Ben Lawers by George Don about the beginning of the century, 
and described by him as a new species, which he called Triticum 
alpinum . After Don’s time no one appears to have found the plant 
for many years, and latterly it had come to be considered as only 
T. repens. Some time ago, however, Mr. Cosmo Melvill found 
a Triticum on Ben Lawers, which, however, had not much attention 
paid to it till a year or two ago, when it was discovered to be 
probably the same as the Norwegian T. violaceum. Till this year 
it had not been re-found till as mentioned above, when, searching- 
in Mr. Melvill’s locality, I found one plant. 
Amongst other plants seen at the Killin excursion may be men¬ 
tioned Phleum alpinum , a grass which is very rare in Perthshire, and 
practically new in the county, and Hieracium aggregation, a very 
rare Hawkweed, new in this county. 
I have now, in conclusion, to mention one or two plants which 
have been added to the Perthshire list this year. The most import¬ 
ant is Epilobium collinum , a species new to the British list, which, 
though found several years ago near Loch Tay by Mr. G. C. Druce, 
was only determined this year. In searching, I suppose, for it this 
year, Mr. Druce found near Loch Tay another very interesting plant, 
Ca/amagrostis borealis , Laest., a grass new to Britain. Mr. Druce has 
kindly given me specimens, which I have pleasure in presenting to 
the Herbarium. 
Besides these, several—perhaps half-a-dozen— Hieracia have been 
identified as growing in the county, some of them being probably new 
species. Of these and of some new willows I will give a report here- 
