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135. 2.7.53, cont. Kenmore, MP., cont. Taken at 3. Marsh below old river scarp! 4.0-4.15 P.M. [10 mtd. from 3 & these labelled Oct. 1953] Polyblastid? black, same as at Lawers! 3 = Monoblastus erythropygus 3♂︎♂︎ pinned. Stenomacrus cf. sylvaticus ♂︎, ant. 26, but radius curved! Phaenocarpa notabilis 1 giant ♂︎, ant. 52, several taken by M.G. Aspilota sp. near micacea or fuscescens ♀︎, ant. 17. Dacnusa bellina? 1♂︎, ant. 25, dark at base. D. pubescens ♂︎: not mtd. Proctos 2 including Disogmus cf. nigripennis Thomson but antennae reddish for at least basal half; Nixon says scarcely paler at base! AWS. Chalcids 4: one mtd. = Bombus agrorum ☿: very fulvous var.! Pinned! 3rd July 1953. Mainly dull & cooler, with mist on hills up to midday. Daisy, I & Duncan Poore (of Coshieville) went by 9.35 bus to Edramucky where car from Killin met us & drove us up the Glen Lyon road to the hydro-electric works. From there we walked west along the new road for about a mile & then struck NW. across valley S. of Cam Chreag, passing on the way the swampy hollow where on 7.52 I found Kobresia caricina - alt. 2,400 ft. & again found it in plenty, with Vaccinium uliginosum & Rubus chamaemorus in the peaty bog of the valley below. 136. 3.7.53, cont. Cam Chreag & Beinn-an-Eachan Next worked scarps & cliffs just N. of the Kobresia on E. side of the ridge running S. from Cam Chreag where a very rich flora including much Carex rupestris, Sax. nivalis, Veronica saxatilis & best of all Duncan Poore found several clumps of Gentiana nivalis — almost 6 inches in height with 5 flowers on a grassy patch about middle of the cliff facing SE or S. Cam Chreag is the original British station for this Gentian. Getting onto the ridge we started left & made for the gap of the Fin Larig between Cam Chreag & seeing Phleum alpinum & Equisetum variagatum on the way & on to west where had lunch at 1 o'clock. Then returned our steps to the gully where in 1952 I had found Carex grahami & found it in full flower & a wonderfully beautiful sight, with its fat female spikelets & stigmas arranged in vertical rows like the ciliae of the marine Beroë [[image]]. Next went up to top of Beinn-an-Eachan & down N. side where Duncan Poore soon discovedred another fine patch of Carex grahami & we saw one spike of Juncus castaneus. We also saw on both N. & S. sides of B. an Eachan quantities of Carex curta, Juncus biglumis & Sandwith's new sedge = dioica var. AWS. 1955, i.e. ? C. [[strikethrough]] parallela [[/strikethrough]]. Myosotis alpestris seen S. of the gap of Fin Larig; Saussurea alpina & Equisetum variegatum (the latter turned down last year by R.D. Meikle but refound close to my locality by Poore today!)