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208 26-6-39 cont. Braeriach, &c., cont. Pindia was seen, its bed consisting of granite boulders with no real attempt at sand beneath. Plants seen on way up included Alchemilla alpina abundant by the road up Glen Einich & to 4,000 or nearly that; Lycopodium alpinus [[alpinum]] & clavatum from 2,000 ft. upwards & one patch of L. annotinum at ca. 3,000 ft., but not on summit; Cornus suecica & Vaccinium ulignosum only at head of gully on E. side of Glen Einich on way up & by ath down near offer Bothy; Gnaphalium at head of same gully & here & there on higher ground on way up & way down; Silene acaulis from Coire-an-Lochan up to 4,000 ft. plateau, where with a sp. of grass, Salix herbacea, & Carex rigida it sometimes formed the only visible vegetation bar lichen & some mosses; Stellaria palustris? on dripping rocks above Loch-coire-an-Lochan, & in Coire Dhoundail; in latter place it was associated with a dwarf from of Caltha palustris (in flower) about 2-4 inches 209 26-6-39 cont. Braeriach, & C. cont. high. Loiseleuria procumbens, abundant on dry slope below W. end of Coire-an-Lochan at 2500 to 3000 ft. & still in flower there; Saxifraga stellaris, on dripping rocks in various places on way up & down; Carex rigida very abundant above 2,000 ft.; Salix herbacea, abundant all over the higher ground from 3,000 ft. upwards; Potentilla sibaldi abundant over a small area by the path down Coire Dhoundail, but only seen there; Veronica alpina one or two plants only with the last in Coire Dhoundai; a very striking grass gathered in flower at outlet of Loch-coire-an-lochan, & possible the same species forming swards when there was snow-water, as well as on plateau; another species on dry slope below Loch, with very red spike (these proved to be [[space]] & [[space]] respectively; Epilobium alpinum, here & there in gully on way up at 2,000 or more, & on way down Coire Dhoundail. The only mollusk seen was Arion ater