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18.7.53, cont.  Ben Lawers, MP., cont.

around the actual cairn, as pointed out by Meikle last year & also some Sagina saginoides.

Went down to "the crater", & had afternoon tea at 4.30 P.M., to get shelter as sudden cold wind had sprung up & saw the usual array of Saxifraga cernua amongst the crags W. & SW. of the semi-circular wall;  but none in flower & had not time to look into the corrie.  Close to where we had tea & 22 yards W. of the semi-circular wall under an overhanging rock found a small patch of Saxifraga rivularis with much larger leaves than in the well-known station down the E. ridge, which also visited on return journey.  Left summit at 4.55 & in hotel at 7 PM. exactly.  To find the Sax. rivularis W. of the crater, of which I took this single leaf [[image]] stand with your back to the curved wall in the crater & face westwards.  On your left about 15 yards away is a small rocky crag & on your right the rocky slope N. of which runs the path from the summit to E. ridge & between there & 22 yards from the wall is a ten-foot high crag 


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with a hollow beneath its S. end & in this hollow is the Sax. [[strikethrough]] rivularis, [[/strikethrough]] only cernua! AWS. 1963. leaves only seen, growing amongst mosses.  Here is a plan & sketch (as seen from the semi-circular wall in the crater - looking westwards (approximately):-

[[image]]
[[captions]]
from summit
crag 
crag
S. rivularis
22 yards
rocky slope
path from summit
to E. ridge
N.S.E.W. - approximate!
semi circular wall
[[/captions]]

[[image]]
[[captions]]
10ft. high crag
crag
rocky slope
path to summit of Ben Lawers
Saxifraga rivularis under vock M-S end of crag.  cernua! AWS. 1963.
[[captions]]



NB. In 1954 M. Colville told me he had seen a plant bearing bulbils under this rock & there is therefore a probability that my plant is only a shade form of S. cernua.  Duncan Poore to investigate! AWS. 
- And in 1963 I also saw bulbils on several bits of the plant proving it was cernua & not rivularis. AWS. 1963