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18th July 1951. 

The most perfect day of our trip. All sunny with cool fresh air & gentle NW breeze.  

With Grant Roger, left hotel about 9.45 & walked up the Lawers Burn & its tributary to the col leading to the Yellow Corrie.  On way up the tributary found several bushes of Salix nigricans & S. lapponum, one of which latter photographed by Roger.  On reaching col searched for Carec microglochin & possibly found several young spikes in or about Mr. Green's station (see sketch opposite!), that is just where the Lawers tributary comes off SE slope of Meall Garbh on to col & turns south to join the Lawers Burn.  On coll in peaty trickle draining S. found a species of Chara (= C. vulgaris?) & with it an abundance of a small form of Limnaea pereger at the remarkable height of 2,700 ft. & upwards - probably about 2,720 ft.- a high-spired form of the shell & some with apex eroded.  Snow appears to lie heavily on this col & some just melted since we came to Lawers on 29th June & several large patches still on NE slopes of Meall Garbh in the Yellow Corrie.  Much Carex atrofusca & Juncus biglumis seen in Yellow Corrie (in much the same place as on 11th July).  On return to col spent


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Yellow Corrie
Cliff Meall Garbh
A = area where Carex atrofusca most frequent i.e. N. of rocky scarp on side of corrie
B  Juncus biglumis 1/4 mile NW. of col.
2,700 ft.  Carex rupestris July 1952 AWS.
Carex pseudo-parallela 1952! AWS.
Viola & Carex sp. -> Col
Mr Green's station for Carex microglochin
<- Col Chara & Lymnaea pereger
Burn ->
2,750 ft. contour  
2,750 ft. contour
K = place where Kobresia caricina plentiful
2,700 ft.
<- Our station for C. microglochin 18.7.51, where springs from micaceous bogs feeding a tributary of the tributary to the Lawers Burn.
Salix lapponum 
Lawers Burn Basin
Cornus suisica
Lawers Burn
Lockam-na-Cat
N.S.E.W.
Not to scale!
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some time searching for Carex microglochin & eventually found it in plenty in young flowering state in one of the spring-fed bogs feeding a tributary of the main tributary flowing south from the col to the Lawers Burn.  Also at same place both Roger