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Abstract

WE have received a box of plants from the Ben Nevis Observatory, including specimens of Saxifraga stellaris, from a height of 4400 feet, and Armeria vulgaris, from 4370 feet. The plants of these two species, with the numerous flowers which covered them, are as large and well grown as any we have ever seen at lower levels. There is also a specimen of Gnaphalium supinum, fairly well grown and in flower, from a height of 4370 feet, and a single plant of Oxyria reniformis from 4390 feet, also fairly well grown, but not in flower. The interest attached to the collection is the great height at which they have been found growing in full vigour, the heights being greater than those hitherto given in our “Floras” as the limits of growth of the species in the British Islands. In the case of Armeria vulgaris the height is considerably greater, 3800 feet being the limit assigned to this species in Hooker's “British Flora.”