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A NUMBER of very rare and interesting plants have been reported in recent years from the Isle of Rhum in the Inner Hebrides. Though Lady Bullough, the owner of the island, generously gave me permission to camp there for longer, I was unfortunately unable to spend more than three days on Rhum, and my knowledge of its flora is therefore very fragmentary. But thanks to the kindness of Prof. J. W. Heslop Harrison, who was staying on the island at the same time, I was enabled to see some at least of its most interesting plants. Of these I shall be especially concerned in this note with two only, namely, Polycarpon tetraphyllum (L.) L. and Carex bicolor All.
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RAVEN, J. Alien Plant Introductions on the Isle of Rhum. Nature 163, 104–105 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163104a0
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