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Angus-shire, not common, Mr. G. Don." Flor. For/. 93,. 

 ' probably a state of erectum" Bab. Man. vii., 170. Given in 

 Stud. Fl. as a synonyme of G. erectum Huds. 

 Tussilago alpina. 



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



"Prov. 15, Forfar, G. Don. Cyb. ii. no, iii. 459 ; absent from 

 Scandinavia." Comp. Cyb. Br. 533. " Rocks among the Clova 

 mts." PL of For/. 5. 



" Said by Mr. Don to have been found in Forfar, but it has 

 been found by no one else." Fug. Bot. 



" There is a specimen in Herb. Brodie, from G. Don, ' On 

 rocks by the side of rivulets on the high mts. of Clova called 

 Garrybarns,' but we are not on that account prepared to admit the 

 plant as indigenous." Arnott's Br. Fl. 



" Included, like so many other dubious plants, among Don's 

 discoveries in Forfar, but no other botanist appears to have found 

 it in Britain. Mr. Gardiner suggests that Don intended Frigeron 

 alpinus, but it is difficult to conceive a mistake between plants so 

 very dissimilar." Cyb. Br. ii. no. 



" Mr. G. Don mentions T. alpina, an Austrian plant, found on 

 the Clova mts. May his plant not be the Erigeron alpinus which 

 he has not enumerated?' 1 Gardiner's Flora Foi-far, p. in. 

 lyb. Br., vol ii. 459, says of this species : — 

 Mr. Borrer says of this, ' My specimen from G. Don is the 

 true plant.' Such being the case, I do not understand why the 

 Homgyne alpina should be totally excluded from British Floras. 

 ex. gr. Bab. Man., while plants less likely to occur in Britain, 

 which rest on no safer authority, are admitted, even as genuine 

 natives, ex. gr. Potentilla tridcntala. I do not, however, believe- 

 this to be a British species." 



There is a specimen in Miss Palmer's collection. 



Nyman gives its distribution as Pyren. Alpes. Jura. Badia. 

 Wurtemb. Bavar., Morav. Bohem. 



Mr. Gardiner's suggestion of Don's mistaking Erigeron for it 

 will not do, as he knew Erigeron well ; and alludes, in corres- 

 pondence, to finding it in the Clova district. If any plants could 

 be mistaken for it out of flower Oxyria, or Tussilago Farfara are 

 the least unlikely. The latter becomes singularly dwarfed in the 

 Clova mts., where I have seen it growing at nearly 3000 feet above 

 the s">a, and is not very dissimilar from barren states of Honwgyne. 

 Ccntauiea intybaeca L. 



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



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