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11.7.53, cont.  Meall Ghaordie, MP., cont.

Juncus triglumis, much Beech Fern, &c, for the most part seen on the cliffs facing SE. on ridge NE. of Meall Ghaordie.  Salix aurita & S. cinerea seen about Tullich Farm & the former for some distance above, where by a burn grew a small tree of of Salix caprea or perhaps caprea x cinerea (specimen taken).  Luzula spicata, Oxyria digyna & Lysimachia nemorum also seen on cliffs or high ground.  [Later discovered that on summit of Meall Ghaordie, which was not visited, is a patch of mica-schist - fide Duncan Poore!]


12th July 1953. 

No wind, very humid, drizzly rain most of the day after a wet night, but in afternoon rain cleared off for a couple of hours & collected some Icks off Cow Parsnip flower-heads, with fingers, east of Lawers, by the roadside, as follows:  Very many seen & some flower-heads held up to 20!

Athalia cf. cordata  ♀︎ not mtd.
Tenthredo "arcuata group":  many seen, none kept!!
Andrena coitana √  ♀︎ on Cow Parsnip.  (Put in collection!)

Ick. ? Vol. 1 or 2, red, elongate abd.  1♂︎ }
Glyphichnemus? profligator?  ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎ common. }
"Tryphon" elongator common }
Campoplegid  ♀︎ = }
} None of the Icks mounted.



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13th July 1953. 

More or less a wet day, with puffs of wind from E, then W. & finally NW;  humid, not cold, drizzly, with heavier rain at times after 12 noon & dry spell in afternoon.

Mr. Colville & I took 9.35 bus to Edramucky where McGregor's car drove us up to the new road to quarry S. of Beinn an Eachan.  Given a lift in jeep by hydro-electric engineers for almost a mile & on leaving this cut up ridge toward Cam Craig, seeing Gentiana nivalis, Kobresia, &c. on the way, as on 3.7.'53.  Then went on to show Mr. Colville the Carex grahami & had lunch beside it.  After lunch came back to the pass along the higher scarps of Beinn-an-Eachan & round S. shoulder of Cam Craig to the ridge where dropped down to base of the Cam Craig cliffs - facing S.  Spent an hour on these cliffs, had afternoon tea & walked back to Edramucky to catch 5.30 bus from Killin & so home.

On rock face just above the Carex grahami saw a beautiful half-crown size tuft of Arenaria rubella covered with fruit, the ciliate pedicals of flowers being proof of its identity.  Small tufts of Draba rupestris seen at same place.  Also one spike of Phleum alpinum on wet slope below cliffs.