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3.7.51, cont.  Yellow Corrie, &c., cont.

[[strikethrough]] bogs & not on rocks. [[/strikethrough]]  In W. bank of the actual col & a few yards on Yellow Corrie side of watershed saw a queer sedge [[strikethrough]] Probably Kobresia but should be looked for again! A.W.S. [[/strikethrough]] (not in flower) growing near quite a show of flowers of Viola riviniana, &c.  On the dry spurs of ridge overlooking Yellow Corrie saw many clumpps of Loiselurea [[Loiseleuria]] procumbens but all past flowering.  Many specimens of butterfly ephiphron - 2 taken! - seen on damper moors & of small black moth [[strikethrough]] carbonaria [[/strikethrough]] coracina, on dry knobs E. of col seen & taken by Williams.


4th July 1951.

Another nice day with clear views till late afternoon when jam formed to SE., S., & SW. & belt of rain hid hills in those directions.

Williams, & A.M. Gwynn (who had arrived on 3rd!), Daisy & I climbed Ben Lawers by S.E. slopes & E. ridge:  had lunch on ridge about 200 feet below summmit & then went up to get the view, which to W., N., & NE. was wonderfully clear.

Ben Nevis clearly seen, as well as the heavily snow-covered Cairngorms, Ben y Glow & Lochnagar & 


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4.7.51, cont.  Ben Lawers

farther away & due North what may have been Ben Wyvis near Strathpeffer.  Away to the west a conspicuous feature were twin peaks, [[image]] like the Paps of Jara to E. [[strikethrough]] but AMG. considered them much to far north to be Jura & suggested Mull [[/strikethrough]] & was certainly Jura fide Canon Raven!  A.W.S. 12.7.51.  I saw two knobs [[image]] which I felt sure were the Stub & its fellow N. & S. respectively of Loch Brandy above Clova.

After admiring the view went to the crags at top of W. corrie & saw lots of Sax. cernua & none the same as on 2nd.  These today about 50 to 100 yards S. or SW. of the "crater" in which the remains of the Ordnance Surrey huts still remain & here also saw many other nice arctic-alpines but nothing new.  On way up E. ridge & just before lunch crossed the "micaceous bog" on flat which just drains to west & here at last found a few scraps of Sedum villosum [NB. There are two of these "bogs" on the ridge & one of them is the original site where Saxifraga rivularis frew fide Mr. Colville of Dundee who was so informed by its original discoverer when a very old man.]

Took 2 beetles on way up:  
1 Coccinellid = 
1 "Staph." =