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15th July 1953. 

Very strong NW. wind with cold drizzle (& rain at times) most of day:  cooler & cold on high ground.   Mr. Colville, Daisy & I left hotel at 10 A.M. & walked up Lawers Burn (left bank) to col leading to the Yellow Corrie, seeing by the tributary from col Salix nigricans & S. lapponum, Saussurea alpina & verified the Polygala as P. serpyllifolia - serphyllacea;  but on way across moor to tributary Mr. Colville found nice plants of Kobresia in a "flush" on slope coming down from ridge N. of Meallg Gruaidh = Greigh on l" Ord Map.  On approaching col took shelter & had lunch & then proceeded W. along the main tributary up E. ridge of Meall Garbh & in flushes N. of the burn, but well within the Lawers drainage area saw much Carex microglochin, "Sandwith's sedge" & "my little sedge" taken on col NE. of Meall Ghaordie on 11th, concerning which I today received a p.c. from Mr. Lousley saying he considered it distinct from Sandwith's sedge & once again hinting that it might be the true C. parallela & adding that it was interesting & would I try to get more.  Proceeding upwards & northwards passed over watershed into drainage area of the Yellow Corrie, saw more C. microglochin & lots 


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15th July '53 cont.  Yellow Corrie, cont. 

of C. atrofusca, Sandwith's sedge & I think Scirpus c. caespitosus. 

Then proceeded further up ridge till met sheep track above the first cliff, which path led us to slope down to W. end of this cliff.  A very rich flora on this slope & near top found a nice little tuft of Sagina nivalis - half crown size & covered with flowers or capsules, which I will try to grow but it died during August following! AWS.  Next went back down cliff to Mr. Colville's bush of Salix lanata & took & sprig with ♀︎ catkins.  This bush seen here in 1951 (& considered only S. lapponum by Grant Roger, but undoubtedly S. lanata).  In swamp at base of cliff a little east of the Salix saw the great growth of Carex saxatilis & two spikes of Juncus castaneus & one of Phleum alpinum & sp.? a little lower down slope than in 1952.  Sandwith's sedge common & variable all over this area.   Also Cerastium alpiniom & sp.?  Crossed corrie eastwards & saw the Kobresia below the crag, which juts out into Yellow Corrie & separates the annexe (to E.) from the main corrie;  & saw great quantities of Carex rupestris on the crag itself, as last year (1952).  Also saw Sandwith's sadge on shelf of annexe & much Loiseleuria procumbens but failed to find Vaccinium [[strikethrough]] oxycoceus [[/strikethrough]] microcarpus! AWS. in the big swamp at head of Lawers Burn tributary 1/2 mile E. of the Col.  Came down this tributary & noted