The Scottish Naturalist. 261 



" Fields by the Forfar coast in several places." PL of For/. 24. 



"Prov. 15, Forfarshire. G. Don sole authority. Error, Cyb. ii. 

 91." Comp. Cyb. Br. 532. 



" Said to occur in Forfar by G. Don ; no doubt a pale flowered 

 variety of C. Scabiosa has been mistaken for this plant as sug- 

 gested by Mr. H. C. Watson. Eng Bot. 



" In the fields by the shore in several places in Forfar accord- 

 ing to G. Don, who adds an opinion that it must have been con- 

 founded with C. Scabiosa, which it much resembles. 



" It seems likely that Don may have given the above name to 

 the pale flowered variety of C. Scabiosa, the resemblance between 

 the two species being such as to render the confusion very pro- 

 bable." Cyb. Brit. ii. 91. 



No notice of this plant occurs in Gard. Flor. Forfar, but he 

 says of C. Scabiosa " three varieties, as respects the colour of the 

 flowers, were found on Will's Braes, prior to their destruction by 

 the railway — one with the flowers white, a second rose-coloured, 

 and a third with the radial floret rose-coloured, and the discoid 

 purple." 



Nyman gives its distribution as Mure. Arrag. Gall, narbon. ; occ. 

 (Herault rr.), prov. (Marseille). 

 Crepis pulchra L. 



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



"Prov. 15, Forfar. G. Don sole authority. Error, Cyb. ii. 49 ; 

 Flora Forfai , 99. Comp. Cyb. Br. 525. 



" Mr. Don said he found this plant among the debris of the 

 rocks of the hills of Turin and Pitsandy, Forfar. Dr. Arnott 

 remarks: "The very few specimens from Don which we have 

 seen are more luxuriant than Smith's acknowledged cultivated one 

 from which the figure in Eng. Nora was made." Eng. Bot. 

 (See PI. of 'For/. 19, Don says very rare.) 



Incog. Don stated he had found this plant, but very rare, on 

 the hills of Turin. It was sought unsuccessfully by Mr. Gardiner 

 in 1845, who says, in Flora Forf, "that a turnip field now 

 occupies the spot." Cyb. Brit., vol. ii. 49. 



Figured in Eng. Ft., 33 vol., 2325 plate, which is drawn from 

 a plant raised from seed sent by Don, who found it wild, in 1796, 

 amongst crumbling rocks on the hill of Turin, Forfar. 



" Was probably an error." Bab. Man. vii. 209. 



Nyman : Poetic. Castil. Arrag. Catal. Gall. Belg. (??). Germ, occ, 

 €tc. 



In Linn. Soc. Trans., x. 345, Smith says: " Not at present 



