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123. 28.6.53, cont. Lawers, Glen, MP., afternoon, cont. Dacnusa eros 1♂︎, ant 40; 1♀︎, ant 37 D. hera ♀︎, ant. 30. Coelinius n. sp. Sligo ♀︎, ant. 28. Aphidius spp. 4. 1♀︎, ant. 18 mtd. cf. A. ulmi M. Monoctonus sp. ♂︎, not mtd. Proctos. 17, including 1♀︎ Belytid with curious abd. Disogmus sp. ♂︎ mounted. Chalcids 5: none mtd. 29th June 1953. After a misty night and early morning, a blazing hot day with E. breeze after 10 AM. Nevertheless, Daisy & I walked up the Lawers Burn & had lunch at 1.15 at head of Lochan-nan-Cat. After lunch went up cliffs W. of the Lochan & below Craig an Fhighthich [[Creag-an-Fhithich]] (Raven's Rock!) & turning S. went down onto boggy shelf to collect Sandwith's "Mysterious Sedge" which I discovered here last July with R.D. Meikle: found it, ♂︎ & ♀︎, in quantity (with much Juncus triglumis, a little J. biglumis, much Carex saxatilis & C. [[strikethrough]] demissa [[/strikethrough]] = lapidocarpa montana form fide Nelmes!, &c. Gave specimens the following day to Grant Roger & Duncan Poore (Coshieville) who both agreed it was not dioica!! Also sent 124. 29.6.53, cont. Ben Lawers, MP., cont. a good series of both sexes to N.Y. Sandwith at Kew. Finally came home over the summit of Ben Lawers seeing Sagina nivalis & S. saginoides at the cairn & Sax. cernua in the usual places S.E. of the summit, the latter this year bearing odd flowers - one at top of each spike - as reported by Grant Roger a few days earlier. Saw also all the usual plants Erigeron, Veronica saxatilis, Chrysosplenium alternifolium (on Craig-na-Fhithich as in 1951). On wet scarp above lunch place, & below An Stuic, collected a robust sedge of C. flava group, which may be lapidocarpa var. scotica of Dr. Elizabeth Davies. (Yes! fide Nelmes!!) Andrena tarsata: a great colony at ca. 1,500 above left bank of the Lawers Burn at 11 AM: 1♂︎ taken: this where the ♀︎ Oil Beetle (Meloc) seen in 1952! 30th June 1953. A similar day to last - misty in early morning with blazing sun all day afterwards, but E. wind much stronger. Driven by Grant Roger to Rannoch Moor, via Coshieville, Kinloch Rannoch & the Black Wood of Rannoch to Rannoch Ry. Station: then went for 1/4 mile across moor S.W. of level crossing to a swampy pool - nearly filled up - where Scheuchzeria grew abundantly & also Carex limosa, C. filiformis, C. rostrata, C. goodenowii, Drosera anglica, &c., while further on near a small clean lochan plenty of C. paunciflora.
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