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by Mr. A. O. Black in Glen Dole, and that most of the garden 

 plants originally came from Don. The exact station in Glen Dole 

 is about 300 feet from the base of the Glen Dole of Craig Rennet, 

 on left hand side of the first large ravine which comes down from 

 Craig Rennet on entering Glen Dole. 

 Saxifraga muscoides, Wulf. 



" One of Don's reputed discoveries." Stud. Flora. 



Prov. 12. (?) Highlands. Error, Cyb. 1*416.; Eng. Fl. ii. 

 272 ; Eng. Bot. iv. 287. Conip. Cyb. 516. 



" S. moscliata S/n. Mr. Don of Cambridge has given us speci- 

 mens from his garden, the roots of which he had from the High- 

 lands of Scotland." Eng. Fl. 33*2314. 



Not given in the Flora of Forfar, 



'•Don's original record is 'Saxifraga nova species] which I believe 

 to be the S. muscoides of Willdenow. Plants of Forfar." 



" S. muscoides. Pyren., Arvern., Juras, Alps, Apen." Nyman* 



This can scarcely be called one of Don's reputed discoveries, 

 as he himself makes no positive statement of having found it. 

 Saxifraga pedaiifida, Ehrh. 



" One of Don's reputed Scotch discoveries. His specimens 

 are the common garden S. irifurcata." Stud. Flora. 



" Don does not pretend to have found it, but sends a garden 

 specimen, saying he has heard it has been found in Scotland." 

 Dr. Boswell signed "letter, 1864." Comp. Cyb. Br. 517. 



" Said to have been found on rocks at the head of Clova ; also 

 reported from Achill Isle by D. Wynne ; but there seems no satis- 

 factory evidence of the latter being the true plant." Eng. Bot. 



Mr. Watson, in Cyb. Brit. 1*417, thus refers to it : — 



" Native. (?) Said to have been found by Don in rocks near 

 the head of Clova. In his account of the Botany of Forfarshire, 

 Don says, in his usual vague or careless language, ■ Summits of 

 the Clova mountains,' but with him the summits sometimes mean 

 declivities very far below, and usually intending rocks at 700 or 

 8oo yards, the actual summits are 1,000 yards or upwards, though 

 there are peaks and ridges of only 800 or 900 yards above the 

 sea-level." 



Arnott says " probably a mistake." Br. Fl. It is figured in 

 Eng. Flora, vol. xxxii., p. 2,778; and it is there stated that 

 " Mr. Don and the late Mr. J. Mackay both gathered this plant 

 in the Highlands, the former on the mountains of Clova, Angus- 

 shire. Our figure is unavoidably taken from a cultivated 

 specimen." 



