218 The Scottish Naturalist. 



Lychnis Alpina, L. : — 



Arnott says in Brit. Flora :-— " We have strong reason to believe 

 the plant was sown on Culrannoch almost sixty years ago." This 

 brings it to the time Don worked Clova. "This interesting plant 

 was first discovered in Little Culrannoch by the indefatigable Mr. 

 G. Don." Gard. Flora, Forfar. 



" Mr. G. Don first made this interesting discovery on rock near 

 the summit of Clova mountains in August, 1795. The plant is 

 there very scarce, being only found, anywhere, on the most elevated 

 spots. "We have preferred drawing Mr. Don's original speci- 

 mens, though dry, to any garden one." Eng. Bot., vol. xxxii. 

 2254. 



"Discovered by G. Don on summits of Clova mountains in 1 795, 

 and found by Dr. Graham and others on the summit of a hill 

 called Little Kilrannoch, between Glen Prosen and Glen Callater. 

 Dr. Graham estimated the hill as 3,200 feet. It was pointed out 

 to me by a shepherd from the head of Canlochen Glen, and 

 at that distance I thought it scarcely above 3,000 feet." Cyb. 

 Br., 1*204. 

 Hypericum barbatum, J acq. 



" Perthshire. — Don never confirmed." Students' Flora. " We do 

 not believe it has ever been found wild in Perth." Arnotfs Br. 

 Flora. 



"No one has found it since, and if ever it occurred there it was 

 doubtless an escape from cultivation, as it is most unlikely an 

 Austrian plant not occurring in Scandinavia, France, or North 

 Germany could be wild in Scotland." Bo swell, E. Bot. 



Sir James Smith says some of the specimens sent by Don 

 reached him in a sufficiently fresh state to be drawn for E. B. 

 plate. Vol. xxviii. Plate 1986. 



"Prov. 15, Perth. G. Don sole authority. Ambiguity. A 

 garden plant." Cyb. 1*254. 



In the English Flora, Smith accepts this as a true native, and 

 without a word of doubt, attributing it to " bushy places in Scot- 

 land," as though there were any number of localities for it in 

 addition to the one specially mentioned "by the side of an hedge 

 in Strathearn." Smith was too exclusively a botanist of the study, 

 not of living nature, to warrant any reliance on his decision about 

 the] genuine nativity or otherwise of plants in Britain. Comp. 

 Cyb. Br., 494. 



" Was found in Perthshire by Don, but was probably not a 

 native." Bab. Man., vii. 67. 



