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XIV. An Account of several Plants, recently discovered in Scotland 
by Mr. George Don, A.L.S., not mentioned in the Flora Bri- 
tannica nor English Botany. By James Edward Smith, M.D. 
F.R.S. P.L.S. 
Read Nov. 21, and Dec. 5, 1809. 
NorwrrusrANDrNG the numerous additions to the British Flora, 
owing to the labour and acuteness of various observers, especially 
of Mr. Dickson, within the last 20 years, new discoveries, of the 
most interesting nature, are continually rewarding the zeal of 
new votaries to botany. I need only advert to the Burbaumia 
aphylla, the abundance of new Lichens, Fuci and Conferve, and 
the numerous Salices, which are amongst our more recent acqui- 
sitions, in proof of my assertion. 
"The richest harvest we have for a long time had, was commu- 
nicated to me in the course of last summer by Mr. George Don of 
Forfar, whose scientific merits and eminent zeal are sufficiently 
known to the Linnean Society. I have chosen a part of these 
treasures for the materials of my earliest tribute to the Society, 
at its first meeting for this season, after the long vacation. ‘The 
plants shall be enumerated in systematic order, with such re- 
marks as I may think useful or amusing to British. botanists, ac- 
companied by characters and descriptions of such species as, 
from their novelty na parity, may require that sort of illus- 
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