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11th July 1951. 

After clearing in morning rain & mist all day & heavy rain later at night.  All the burns in spate!  Absolutely windless & very oppressive damp & steamy.  Left hotel about 10 A.M. (Dainy & I alone) & walked up the left bank of the Lawers Burn.  The field above farm now full of Gentiana campestris in flower though none seen previously.  Went up the burn to where old track crosses the burn & then struck across moor to the NE. & went up gully on W. side of Meall Greigh where quite a good show of plants including Salix nigricans ♂︎ & ♀︎√, S. [[strikethrough]] lanata? [[/strikethrough]] lapponum, Carex vaginata, see also p.148 to follow -> (very fine plants on wet shelf near lowest part of scarp with almost mature & huge fruit).  Hieracium anglicum? & a smaller species of which one specimen taken = H. senescens var. fide John Raven!, & many commoner alpines.  After lunch in this gully set out for col to Yellow Corrie which reached about 2.30 & went down into eastern annexe where snow only just melted in places & small sedge like C. dioica found (see p.154 to follow ->) & round shoulder or ridge into the main corrie & across it to shelf on W. side where had tea at 4 P.M.  Later went up slope towards Meall Garbh, round head of rocky scarp


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11.7.51, cont.  Yellow Corrie, MP., cont.

where much Carex atrofusca, back to col & so down tributary to Lawers Burn & home via left bank at 6.50.  Saw much Kobresia caricina which on 3rd July had been mistaken for Carex rupestris & lots of the usual sedges & rushes but could not find any Carex migroglochin - conditions however very poor, everything wet & dripping.

On way up Lawers Burn in morning saw a pair of Buzzards.

Scorpion Fly in scrub by Lawers Burn just above farm.


12th July 1951.

Another dull day with drizzle all day & chilly NE. wind.  No sun & no drying after another night of heavy rain.  Took 10.30 bus from Lawers to Fearnans & walked to Kenmore & from there to Coshieville where picked up by 4.15 bus from Aberfeldy.  Lovely collecting grounds all the way by roadside but only under a few of the larger trees & on Cowparsnip umbels E. of Kenmore was any collecting of insects possible.

Quite a few plants not before seen when in Perthshire growing by roadside, e.g. Clinopodium vulgatum (fide Graham), Hieracium pulmonarioides on walls at Kenmore, H. aurantiacum (Fearnans)