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11.7.52, cont.   W. corrie, Ben Lawers, MP.

& failing to find any went up the most northern gulley (to right of main cliff!) as Mr. Daltry thought he had seen the plant there in 1909, but obviously a mistake.  Wind on Summit too fierce to stand up in for most of the ladies!  Next went round by the "crater" to see Sax. cernua & over ridge & down past where the Ptarmigan seen on 1st July, down to the Juncus trifidus slope, where all once more failed to find the Azalea procumbens, though Williams thought he could do so - he having been shown it last year by H.E. Green.  And so back to hotel at 6.20.

Saw several plants of Salix lapporum by the burns in lower part of corrie, but no trace of the bush of S. nigricans reported on 1th July 1951 (p.27) & I don't see how I could have missed it if there.

At about 1,500 ft. on left bank of burn saw a patch of the real Epilobium angustifolium (not in flower) & at ca. 2,500 the patch of Saussurea alpina, which had some flower spikes in bud, but none in flower.

On way up rill to lunch place saw quite a lot of small bits of Sedum villosum in flower & Williams took Juncus biglumis (as I did last year).


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11.7.52, cont.  W. corrie, Ben Lawers, cont.

After lunch crossed upper corrie by a lower route than usual & saw many nice plants including a Cerastium with rather upright growth;  greener & less hairy than C. alpina, but the same large flowers:  this resembles the plant Mr. Martin showed me a few days ago as C. arcticum & which I have suspected is the hybrid between C. vulgatum & C. alpinum.

A Myosotis (cf. versicolor?) at 1200 ft.;  a stray oak leaf at ca. 1,500 feet, & a grass (Poa nemoralis?) above this, taken on way up the Carric Burn (= Allt an Tum Bhric of 1" Ord. Map) in forenoon.


12th July 1952.

Not a bad day but not good.  Cold NW. wind, after a wettish night, with damp misty drizzle at times in forenoon, but dry in afternoon.  Very little sun.  Len Williams & I (& a Mr. Evans from Bristol, who attached himself to us & who had arrived by early bus from Aberfeldy) walked up the Lawers Burn & tributary to the col & spent afternoon in the Yellow Corrie, where no snow & vegetation much more advanced than in 1947 & 1951.  Salix lapponum & nigricans bushes seen by the tributary (as in 1951);  Kobresia, Carex atrofusca & C. vaginata in the Yellow Corrie, the last on a shelf of one of the ridges between the runnels coming off the NE. cliffs of Meall Garbh & growing amongst quite rank vegetation.