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14th July, 1952. 

A fairly fine day, but wind E. at Laswers in morning & W. in Glen Lochay from noon onward, which caused a jam over Ben Lawers & heavy showers but we escaped until 5 P.M.

Went by 9.35 bus to Bridge of Lochay where met by [[strikethrough]] bus [[/strikethrough]] car (Mr. & Mrs. Daltry, Marcus Graham, Len Williams, Daisy, & I) & driven to the bridge over the Lochay at Inishcoragh.  Walked SW from bridge toward W. end of range of cliffs on N. face of Meall-na-Saone ("M. na-Samha" fide new 1" Ord. Map!) over very heavy heather & hummocky ground, passing on way a very deep wooded gorge through which the main burn runs & which seemed very rich in ferns.  At perhaps 1,000 ft. alt. passed much Carex pauciflora in the wetter places & at ca. 1700 some nice patches of Lycopodium annotinum.

Reached cliffs in time for lunch at about 2,300 feet where very rich flora of the normal type.  After lunch worked eastward & on coming to a high cliff facing N. found plenty of Dryas & Bartsia alpina, as well as various other nice alpines & Salices.  Then crossed head of tributary burn to another cliff & found much Salix lanata, S. lapponum


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14.7.52, cont.  Allt Innischorach, MP., cont.

[A little east of where the Dryas & Bartsia alpina grew there was a long cliff with many small willows amongst which Salix arbuscula was common & I found one bush with very green leaves - green above & below - not glaucus beneath - which R.D. Meickle subsequently said was probably S. myrsinites:  it has one ♀︎ catkin.

This cliff would repay further investigation as we had no time & only rushed past it to get on & look for S. lanata.  After afternoon tea at the lanata cliff, which is only a scarp really, we made our way straight back to the bridge by the ridge between the Allt Innischorach basin & that next to the east of the Allt Dubh chlaise (?) & at about 1,500 feet saw quite a lot of Plantago maritima on a wettish slope just S. of a bare rocky "roche montonné".  A.W.S. later]