Volume 9 - Electric Scotland

NOTES ON THE FLORA OF PERTHSHIRE 165
and Saxifraga cernua were not less plentiful than they were
twenty years ago but S. rivularis is so scarce that a
; single
collector might easily eradicate The it.
rich rocks of Creagan-Lochain
had one day allotted to them, when Hieracium
insulare, vwc.petrockatis, was in especially fine flower. Another
day was devoted to the Perthshire side of Beinn Laoigh.
Mr. H. N. Dixon has already elsewhere given an account of
the mosses he found on his expedition to Beinn Heisgarnich,
which was first alluded to as a botanical hunting-ground in
Lightfoot's "Flora Scotica " of 1774, where it is called Ben
Teskerney.
It took some considerable time, for a Southron
unversed in Gaelic, to identify this with the mountain on the
Ordnance Maps spelt Beinn Heisgarnich. This hill is
situated about ten miles from Tyndrum, on the south-eastern
side of Loch Lyon and the walk to it from
;
Tyndrum, which
we shortened by taking a machine for three miles, is at the
best a long and wearisome approach by the Allt Chonoglais,
although Beinn Doireann rears its finely shaped mass boldly
up to the north, and the south-eastern side is blocked by
the bold cliffs of Beinn a Chaisteil. Afterwards there is
little to interest one as one passes by the south of Beinn
Vennoch to Loch Lyon, at the head of which there is considerable
marshy ground worthy of systematic investigation.
We made the ascent of the western shoulder of Ben
Heasgarnich, on which, and in the corrie, there is a large
deposit of peat and
; eventually, after a rough climb, were
rewarded by a sight of the magnificent cirque with a grand
rocky coronet, which would require many visits to work with
any degree of finality.
The summit, 3530 feet high,
is not
particularly interesting, and the descent to Allt Foinn-a-
Glinne is down a grassy slope of a very considerable degree
of steepness. Although there is no loch in the corrie, a
multitude of small watercourses offer some very interesting
botanising. Another day was spent on Glas Thulachan,
which we visited from the Spital of Glenshee, and this also
necessitates a rather wearisome walk by the Allt Ghlinn
Thoilneicht to its junction with the stream issuing from Glas
Thulachan itself. The corrie is rather extensive, but the
rocks are not very bold at any rate they
did not seem so
to ourselves, just fresh from the precipices of Lochnagar.