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known in our gardens, though said to have been cultivated in 

 Chelsea in Rand's time. Mr. Don rightly determined it to be a 

 Crepis, and the Linnean specimens decided its species. 

 My worthy friend, Dr. Afzelius, once told me an amusing 

 anecdote to account for the specific name of this Crepis. 

 The Queen of Sweden, Louisa Ulrica, celebrated as the great 

 patroness of Linnaeus, used frequently in her visits to the Upsala 

 Garden to jest with him for valuing many mean and ill-looking 

 plants, in which she could see nothing to admire. Coming to this 

 little Crepis, which is far from ornamental, the Queen exclaimed, 

 " This, I suppose, you call a pretty plant." Linnaeus replied, 

 " The plant has as yet not been called anything, but your Majesty 

 has given it a name which shall certainly be adopted." He 

 therefore called it Crepis pulchra. 



There is a specimen in Miss Palmer's collection. 

 Hieraciwn ceri?ithoides L. 



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



" Rocks near the head of Clova 1 " G. Don. Flor. For/. 102. 



" Don did not appear to know the true plant." Arnott Br. Ft. 



" Said by Smith to have been sent him from the Highlands by 

 Mr. G. Don. The figure is from a cultivated specimen, and no 

 doubt the plant which Don saw wild, and believed to be the same, 

 was H. Anglicum var. b." Eng. Bot. 



" G. Don asserts it to be ' not rare ' in the Highlands of Scot- 

 and, and localizes it more specifically ' on rocks amongst the 

 Clova mts.' 



The garden plant given here by Mr. Borrer is surely not 

 H. anglicum" Cyb. Brit., vol. ii. 59. 



" Sent from the Highlands of Scotland by its discoverer, Mr. G. 

 Don, who informs us this species is by no means uncommon there 

 upon rocks. Fug. Flora., vol. 34, t. 2378. 



Cyb. Br., 3,453, says: "Mr. Borrer's garden plant, mentioned 

 on page 59, vol. 2, was not of British origin ; but it is believed by 

 him to be the same species with the specimens from G. Don. 

 Might not the latter be of garden and foreign origin only ? 



Miss Palmer's plant is not a form of Anglicum. 

 Hieracium divaricatum. G. Don. 



" Prov. 15, Clova mts." G. Don. 



Ambiguity, Cyb. ii. 61. Hieracium lingulatum Backhouse 

 Mon. 30. Comp. Cyb. Br., p. 526. 



Incog. " On rocks among the Clova mts." Cyb. Br. ii. 61. 



This is referred to H. lingulatum in the Stud. Fl. 



