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12th June 1947.  

An entirely dull, misty day, with cold E. breeze, & all vegetation very wet after night's mist.  Did not go out in morning, but packed up plants, mosses for Miss Thomson & insects to send back to Dublin.   

Took 12.20 bus with same party as on 11th, to Glen Lyon Road & walked up to Lochan na Lairige, between Meall-an-Tarmachan & Ben Lawers.  On magnificent series of cliffs west of loch Mr. Green had reports of Dryas & much Salix Myrsinites but we saw neither, no doubt due to want of time, as we had only about 1 1/2 hours at the cliffs & on that over the lake I saw Trollius (in abundance), Thalictrum alpinum, Arabis hirsuta, Draba verna, D. incana, Sisymbrium thalianum, Cochlearia cf. alpina, Silene acaulis, in flower, of varied colours & in abundance, Lychnis dioica in flower, Cerastium, Hypericum pulchrum, Geranium sylvaticum, Lathyrus montanus, Alchemilla alpina & "vulgaris", Potentilla Crantzii (taken in flower by Mrs. Holder), Rubus saxatilis, Epilobium angustifolium, Sedum rosea, Sax. nivalis & stellaris, Sax. aizoides (1 flower), Sax. hypnoides & Sax. Opp.


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Angelica & Heracleum, Adoxa, Galium boreale, [[strikethrough]] G. sylvestri? [[/strikethrough]] - Probably only G. saxatile AWS.;  Bellis perennis;  Solidago (rare!), Antennaria dioica, Carduus heterophyllus, Campanula rotundifolia, Vacc. Vitis-Idaea, Pinguicula vulgaris, Rhinanthus sp., Thymus, Polygonum viviparum with whitish flowers at top of spike & bulbils below, Oxyria digyna, Empetrium, Urtica dioica, Salix cf. arbuscula, abundant, & one more hairy-silvery leaved bush = S. lapponum?, Juniperus communis one bush, Habenaria viridis, Orchis mascula with unspotted or white spotted leaves, Juncus triglumis, on wet slopes below cliffs, Luzula spicata & campestris, Carex dioica, pulicaris, panicea, atrata (1 spike taken by Mr. Holder on wet slope below cliffs), capillaris, on edge of grassy ridges below cliffs;  caryophyllea & pilulifera ? starred, binervis, a curious tall upright grass (? Avena alpina?), with very broad & blunt leaves, Poa alpina common on fallen rocks at foot of cliffs, Woodsia alpina: 2 plants, one on dry rock with Poa alpina & the other under wet rock, Asplenium viride, Aspidium Lonchitis,