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9.)

2nd July 1951. - Repeat of previous page by mistake!

A day of damp mist in the hills over 1500 feet but no rain till evening or night in valley.  We & Mr. Williams walked from hotel to entrance to West Corrie & so up almost to summit of Ben Lawers & thence home via SE slope.  In the corrie saw all the usual plants & on cliffs below summit at head of corrie (about 3000 ft. saw great quantity of Myosotis alpestris in flower, with Potentilla krantzii [[crantzii]], Salix reticulata, Erigeron alpinum (not more than a dozen plants seen in flower!).  Various purple forms of Viola lutea var. amoena seen & making a grand show;  but not just going well with the startling blue of the Myosotis. 

We then crossed upper corrie to the crags between some of which snow still lay & worked up to the topmost where about 50 or more plants of Sax. cernua seen, (including a few in SE. side of ridge) & about half a dozen clumps of Arenaria rubella.

Snail Arianta arbustorum seen in upper corrie!


10.

3rd July 1951.  

A very fine day with much sun and gentle NW breeze.  All the party (H.E. Green & nephew, William, Daisy, & myself walked up left bank of the Lawers Burn & thence up the middle of the three northern tributaries on to ridge between it & The Yellow Corrie.  At the back of tributary saw the patch of Cranberry (V. microcorpa [[strikethrough]] oxycoccus [[/strikethrough]]) as in 1947 & thence up western runnel where collected Juncus biglumis [[strikethrough]] (supposed!) [[/strikethrough]] in 1947 [1947 specimens are biglumis! AWS. 30.7 1951.] & again saw what was thought to be it, but on return to the hotel all specimens taken here considered to be only forms of triglumis.  Later went on to stated site of Carex microglochin just on Lawers Burn side of watershed & found that snow had only just melted & no sign of growth yet visible.  William & I tried Yellow corrie but soon gave up for same reason, but on return struck a green patch by trickle where snow had melted earlier & found the real Juncus biglumis which is quite distinct in colour & all characters from J. triglumis.  Some very nice specimens of ripe Carex saxatilis seen in various places & on way down to Lawers Burn shore (& on left bank) of the north westerly of the three tributaries (i.e. the one that comes down SE side of Meal [[Meall]] Garbh!) found several patches of a sedge which [[strikethrough]] may be Carex rupestris but growing on micaceous [[/strikethrough]] proved to be immature Kobresia caricina.