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7./ 1st July 1951 (Sunday). A fine day, with some misty rain in afternoon & light rain later. Wind SW & rather strong. Spent forenoon along shore of L. Tay at Lawers, where a very interesting flora. Found a sedge on shore very like Carex Distans = C. xanthocarpa! In swampy ground above shore belt of scrub a very beautiful show of orchids - Hab. conopsea, Hab. chlorantha, O. ericetorum & one of the O. purpurella group, with hybrids between last two. Also a very pretty Orchis with spotted leaves & small brightly coloured & marked flowers which has labellum equally 3-dentate like this [[image]] the mid lobe often being much longer than the lateral. The small size of the flowers at first suggesting a cross between conopsea & ericetorum but this is impossible. Later. It is the local form of O. fuchsii! AWS. That it is a form of O. fuchsii I dont believe, but what else it could be I don't know. In afternoon all walked up by the Lawers Burn to visit the springs coming out of moraine on right bank at about 1200 ft. These changed greatly since 1947 & Carex cappillaris no longer to be seen & only one plant of Juncus trigulumis seen, but Eriophorum latifolium as common as before. On path above left bank of the Burn Williams found Sagina saginoides 8. [[strikethrough]] 1st [[/strikethrough]] 2nd July 1951. Monday. - Repeated by mistake on next page! Spent day in SW. corrie of Ben Lawers as damp mist & strong W. wind all day - not pleasant. Walked W. from hotel along road & then cut across moor to Carrie Burn & up into corrie. Worked up corrie to top where on cliff near large snow-patch saw much Myosotis alpestris in flower & about a dozen Erigeron alpinum; Carex atrata, Salix reticulata, & all the commoner alpines. Next crossed (eastwards) upper corrie immediately S. of & beneath summit & got amongst the crags & snow patches, where Sax. oppositifolia still in flower, & worked up to topmost crags, over ridge, & then SE. down slope & so home to hotel. Near top of gully came on a few clumps of [[strikethrough]] Sagina [[/strikethrough]] Arenaria rubella (not yet in flower) & several nice patches of Sax. cernua bearing bulbits & after crossing ridge found one patch of S. cernua in hollow near where seen in 1947. On this day only myself, Daisy & young Len. Williams formed the party. Took 3 beetles: Notiophilus sp. Elaphrus sp. Oteorrhyncus maurus?