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25.6.47, cont.  Little Culrannoch, cont.

grew Cherleria sedoides, Armeria, Cochlearia sp. (the "groenlandica" of Gardiner's "Flora of Forfar") some plants of which had quite purple flowers like those usually borne by C. danica & others - the majority - had quite white flowers;  Juncus trifidus also occurred & some grasses (not in flower, though one taken to grow).

This stony ridge forms the watershed of the three burns - a tributary of the White Water draining E., a tributary to the Canness draining west, & the Little Culrannoch Burn draining South where in about 3/4 of a mile it meets the Feula Burn & turns east & drops into the gorge of the White Water.  At the head of the Little Culrannoch Burn is a vast area of springs filled with sedge & amongst these Daisy found a large patch of covetted Carex rariflora with which grew a creeping grass named subsequently by Mr. Hubbard of Kew from plant in garden (Oct. 1947) Agrostis canina var. fascicularis Sinclair, while in damper place grew an alpine form of C. curta [[strikethrough]] (? the helvola of Dunn) [[/strikethrough]] & a puzzling plant of the aquatilis-Goodenowii group (only just coming into flower!) possibly the "Carex caespitosa" of Wm. Gardiner's "Flora of Forfar".  From all this it is evident that Gardiner in referring to the "Summit of Little Culrannoch" did 


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not mean the summit of Tom Buidhe, but the ridge at head or sumit or source of the Culrannoch Burn, though his altitude - "3200 ft" - would lead one to believe he intended Tom Buidhe, alt. 3140.

The actual estimate of the locality for Lychnis alpina cannot I think be more than between 2,800 & 2,900 ft.

Leaving the area reluctantly about 3.45, we proceeded down the Little Culrannoch Burn, over vast wet areas of almost pure sedges - a type of ground I have never seen before! - to its junction with the Feula & then down the latter burn to its fall into the White Water, which I think Wm. Gardiner refers to as "The Wash of Feula".  We had tea on rocks at head of the Wash of Feula & & left there at about 4.50, crossed the White Water at same place as in morning above the fall in to gorge, reached the Braemar path & got back to meet the car at Glen Doll Lodge at the exact appointed time of 7 P.M., after a memorable day.

During day saw very few Salices, but