The Scottish Naturalist. \yj 



JSilenc alpestris Jacq. 



" One of Don's reputed discoveries." St., Ft. " Certainly 

 obtained from a garden." Arnotts Br. Fl. " A specimen of this 

 plant gathered by Mr. G. Don ' on a rock on a mountain to the 

 east of Clova, Angusshire' is in Mr. Borrer's herbarium." Bab. Man. 

 and in Gard. Fl. F 27. " Prov. 15, Forfar, G. Don in Borrer's herb. 

 41 Error?" Cyb. 1, 203. " Specimens from Don are now distrusted." 

 C. C. Brit. " Said to have been gathered by Mr. G. Don on a rock 

 4o the east of Clova." Boswdl, E. B., Bab. Man. vii. 51. 

 A renaria fastigiata S m . 



" Scotch mts. Don never confirmed." In English Botany, Dr. 

 Boswell says he has one of Don's specimens ; this has no particles 

 of mica adhering to the roots. " Clova mts., Mr. G. Don." Gard. 

 FL, F, 32. "Prov. 15, Forfar and Fife. G. Don. Error?" 

 Cyb. Brit. 1,220. "Dr. Arnott intimates in the British Flora 

 that he was in possession of Clova specimens from Drummond 

 .as well as Don, but Drummond may have got them from Don 

 or from Don's garden, and Dr. Arnott suggests under the head of 

 Carcx hordeiformis that Drummond did distribute specimens from 

 Don's garden as if collected elsewhere and wild." In C. C. Brit. 

 *' Area (15) Incog." Cyb. Brit. It is figured in English Flora t 

 "Vol. XXV., No. 1744. And is thus noticed, "Mr. G. Don had 

 the good fortune to discover this new British plant on rock in the 

 mountains of Clova, and also in Fifeshire. He rightly referred it 

 to Jacquin's A. fasriadata." In Don's fasciculus, No. 136, are 

 specimens of the true plant, of which on the label attached Don 

 says : — " It is several years since I first observed this plant grow- 

 ing on the mountains of Clova, but very rare. I have likewise 

 found it on some rock in Fifeshire, but rare. My specimens 

 ■are from Clova." " Mountain of Fifeshire and westward of Clova. 

 Mr. G. Don." Bab. Man.,ed. vii., 55. 



Alsine Jacquini, K. Germ. occ. Bavar, Helv., &c. " Nymans 1 

 Sylloge. 



There is a specimen in Miss Palmer's collection, but there is 

 no mica on the roots of this or any other of her specimens. This 

 may be accounted for by the fact that Lady Aylesford probably 

 on receiving the living plants placed them in water while painting 

 them. 

 Sagina alpina, E.B.3. 



"Top of Ben Nevis. Don." St. Fl. "Prov. 16. Sum- 

 mit of Ben Nevis. G. Don. Don says he found it in 1794. 

 See PI. of Forfar 24. Syn. 167. Apparently not found by any 

 living botanist, and the summit of Ben Nevis is almost destitute 

 of phenogamous plants." C. C. Brit., 490. " Don seems to have 

 found it on Ben Nevis." Bab. Man., 7th ed., 53. 



This plant, there is little reason to doubt, was found by Don in 

 Scotland, and probably on Ben Nevis ; and as Mr. Watson else- 

 where asserts that with Don the "summit of mountains" means 



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