Flowers

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Notes on the flora and fauna of A Mheribh Bheag [A' Bheiribhe Bheag, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula] including glas-fhaoileagan [herring gulls], buttercups and wild kale. Includes sketch of a perpendicular hole found on the south east of the island.

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Parochetus communis and Smithia ciliata copied from plate 35.

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Another copy of no.23, done on white paper annonated "28 July 1862 Sach Pass-Chamba Prostate stem of Rhododendron campanulatum from the immense weight of snow 12, 600ft".

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Roscoea alpina and R. purpurea copied from plate 89.

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Roscoea (now Cautleya) lutea lutea copied from plate 89.

Scope and Contents This is a collection of seven inscribed and signed letters from Robert Graham (Regius Professor of medicine and botany at the University of Edinburgh, and Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden and King’s botanist) to his friend George Drummond Steuart of Braco Castle [spelt "Stewart" by Graham]. The letters are generally a friendly correspondence discussing flowers, salmon fishing on the Tay, and other matters.The letters are dated 18 June 1842, 25 June 1842, 3 January 1843, 9 March...

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Sterculia guttata, with a torn small sheet of pencil dissections attached by thorn.

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Photograph of a woman, J.G., picking flowers on the bank of the Vedder River in British Columbia, Canada in the early 20th century.

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Vocabulary note and accompanying quote which reads 'An carrs = Buttercup. Used for at buinn instead of poultice. Tha an carrs faisg air a ghobhas ga/chon a comhnadh said the fairy.' The text has been scored through in pencil and in ink as if transcribed elsewhere.

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Vocabulary note which reads 'Brocan = bogha-muc = B. hyacthin' [wood hyacinth]. Text has been scored through by a horizontal line.