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108 ON THE FLOKA OF SKYE.
Lecnnora badia* picea (Dicks.), Nyl. This dift'ers from the type by
the thallus and the apothecia being pitch-black, spores oblong,
0-009-0-011 mm. long. It is evidently Lichen piceus of Dickson's
Crypt. Fasc. 4, p. 22, t. 12, fig. 5, but does not appear to have been
noticed since as a British Lichen, till I gathered it last autumn ou
Morrone.
Lecidea ocellata* praponens, Nyl. ; thallus yellow, areolate or gra-
nulate-verruculose, apothecia subinnate, rugulose, immarginate; spores
0-015-7 ram. long, 0"008--0"010 mm. thick. Not uncommon on
stones of the railway wall between Nigg and Cove, on the coast of
Kincardineshire, south of Aberdeen. July, 1868.
ON THE FLOEA OF SKYE.
By M. a. Lawson, Esq., M.A.,
Professor of Botany, Oxford.
Notwithstanding the number of people who yearly travel through
the Isle of Skye, there has never yet appeared any published list of its
indigenous plants. The following, while it makes no pretensions to
completeness, may, it is hoped, aflbrd to future travellers in those re-
gions some assistance in determining what species are new, and what
to be expected.
Our party consisted of Professor Oliver, Mr, Fox, and myself; and
our stay in the island a fortnight, the last week in July and the first of
August. We took the steamer from Glasgow to Portree ; thence by a
small boat to Steinscholl, a little village situated a short distance from
Loch Staffin, a shallow bay in the north-east of Skye. From this
place we botanized the Quirang and Storr, together with the range of
mountains stretching between the two.
Thence by Uig to Dunvegan, which we made our head-quarters
while investigating the botanical treasures of M'Leod's Tables, Dunve-
gan Head, and the woods surrounding the castle.
From Dunvegan we joiu'neyed by mail to Sligachan, and, while
there, devoted two days .to the Coolins, and two to the red cone and
ridge of Glamaig and Glamer. One day at Broadford, and three at
Kyle Akin, finished our tour.
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