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Saturday, 30th June 1951. 

A lovely day, fine, with sun & cloud, & faint misty rain in hills in afternoon;  strong W. wind later. 

Took 10.35 bus from Lawers to Glenlyon Rd. (Edramucky) & walked up to near outlet of Lochan-na-Lairige where crossed stream & went up to scarps & cliffs along the small burn 1/4 mile S. of Lochan (where much Sax. aizoides!) where below cliffs Mr. Horace E. Green (who with his nephew has joined us at Lawers & with us today - a well as a student Mr. Williams (from Reading & Imperial College of Science, London)) thinks is the place he found Saxifraga hirculus - Error! in flower in 1948, but S. aizoides not yet in flower so little hope of seeing S. hirculus & we did not see it though much nice ground.  

[[margin]] In August 1951 Mr. Green wrote informing me that his plant had to be wrongly identified & was merely a form of Sax. aizoides.  AWS. 1951. [[/margin]]

Worked N. along the foot of cliffs to near spot Daisy & I found Woodsia alpina in 1947 & had lunch;  later worked along upper range of cliffs for 1/4 mile to N. & then Williams, Daisy & I returned down a steep gully to join the two Greens, where had afternoon tea at 4 P.M. & then walked back to catch 5.45 bus & so back to Lawers at 6 P.M.  After lunch I found one lovely plant of Woodsia alpina a little N. of the lunch place & a specimen of the snail Hygromia hispida, as well as Arianta arbustorum & Helis nemoralis.  Williams & H.E. Green several miserable plants of Sax. nivalis, only 1 to 2 inches high & the former 3 patches of Dryas octopetala


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30.6.51, cont.  Cliffs W. of Lochan-na-Lairige, cont.

Saw nearly all the plants we saw here in June 1947, & a few new ones, such as Vicia sylvatica (several small patches clinging to the cliffs, just before tunnel).  Much Juncus triglumis, Carex capillaris & Salix arbuscula seen, a little Carex atrata, Lychnis dioica, Sesleria caerulea, Poa alpina, Avena "alpina".  Many Hawkweeds seen but not yet in flower & many specimens of the curious one taken in 1947 & then too young to identify even as to its family, but now in bud & clearly a Hieracium as some in bud:  later run down by Mr. Green as almost certainly H. prenanthoides - This is correct! AWS. 1952. - by the "clasping" stem leaves, &c.  Mr Green also found one specimen of Hieracium anglicum? in flower & we both took what we thought to be a form of Salix lapponum (but not quite like the Clova plant taken in 1947).  Of the Salix myrsinites reported as "abundant" here we saw nothing.

On the moors on way from bus saw quite a few specimens of the Mountain Ringlet Butterfly (epiphron) flying over quite ordinary ground of mixed wet & dry heath, with Sphagnum, Carex & Erica, &c. &c.  This is the only Butterfly seen!  

Took one bettle at lunchtime =

Saw Wheatears, Meadow Pipits, Ring Ouzels along cliffs & Common Gulls about moors & lakes.