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will, by such powerful aid; constitute perhaps as complete a cata- 

 logue of vegetable productions as any country can boast. Tlie 



* 



alpine region of Clova, though so successfully investigated by Mr. 

 Don, has yielded a great number of novelties to Mr, Drummond of 

 Forfar. But these discoveries, interesting as they are to the Briti:sh 

 Naturalist, shrink into nothing in comparison with what lie has 

 brought home from the alpine regions of North America ; and some 

 account of these must form the subject of an article in this Journal. 

 There are botanists however, we cannot but believe, who are suc- 

 cessfully pursuing their career, from the purest and most disinterested 

 love of the science, alike "unknowing and unknown" as respects other 

 botanists ; believing perhaps that their discoveries, made under such 

 disadvantageous circumstances, cannot be valual)le to the more ex- 

 perienced labourer in the field. It was accident that made us ac- 

 quainted with such ah one, whose name stands at fh6 head of this 

 article. We had solicited permission to publish in the Flora Lon- 

 dinensis his important discovery of the Cotoneaster vulgains * as a 



* 



Aative of Britain, and had afterwards the pleasure of making an ex-* 

 cursion into the Highlands of Scotland with him. We parted at 

 Killin, where Mr. Wilson remained for some weeks, botanizing in 

 the neighbouring mountains, which are know^n to be very rich in 

 plants. The following observations are the result of these excursions. 



We o^ive the liftf Qc if ifi • for thm 



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which compose it 



are not all of such rarity as to be particularly interesting to those 

 who are in tlie habit of exploring alpine districts, yet there are few 

 w^hose localities may not be acceptable to some collector ; and they 

 are stated with considerable minuteness and accuracy. The remarks, 



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be it observed, are chiefly with reference to Sir J. E. Smith's T.nglish 

 Flora. 



Aspidium LoncJdtis : particulai'Iy fine and abundant below Craig 



Calliach. 



* This plant Mr. Wilson found in Wales, in which country and in the neigh- 

 bouring border of England he has met with many interesting productions, not be- 

 fore known as existing in Britam : amongst them is Bryum affine, of Sch^vaegnchen, 

 ^vhich was detected in a wood at Over, Cheshire, sparingly and in swampy ground. 



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