264 The Scottish Naturalist. 



A form of repens was probably mistaken for this species, although 

 Don's knowledge of the species was very considerable. 

 Juncus tenuis. Willd. 



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



" We have specimens from Don's garden, but we doubt much if 

 the roots were ever found in Clova." Arnotfs Br. Ft. 



Prov. 15, Scot. ; Dickson. Clova mts., G. Don. 



Ambiguity, Cyb. iii., 47. Neither authority is reliable, but the 

 figure of gracilis in Eng. Fl, vol. 31, No. 2174, may pass well 

 enough for tenuis." Comp. Cyb. Br. 586. 



" Said to have been found in a rivulet in marshy ground among 

 the mountains of Clova." Boswell Eng. Bet. 



" Found by G. Don in 1795 or 1796 by the side of a rivulet in 

 marshy ground among the mountains of Angus-shire, but very 

 rarely. It appears to be a nondescript, but we received from Mr. 

 Dickson, some years before the above date, a specimen, not so far 

 advanced towards maturity, of what seems to us the same species.'' 

 Fug. Fl. 31, 2174. 



" By a rivulet in marshy ground among the mts. of Clova, near 

 their summits. Mr. G. Don and Mr. D. Don (Hb.F.)" Gar- 

 diners Flora Forfar, 183. 



" Such a record as Don's is worthless in science until confirmed 

 by some more accurate botanist of the present time." Cyb. Brit. 



u A mistake." Boi. Man. 364. 



In Don's collection of grasses, etc., is a specimen of this 

 labelled " Clova. I consider it tenuis, and see no reason why it 

 should not again be found in some of the lower glens of the 

 Clova districts. Miss Palmer has also a specimen of it. 



Nyman gives Gall. occ. Belg. Batav. Germ. (plur. sed sporad.), 

 Bohem. 



[In the Journal of Botany for March, 1884, vol. xxii., p. 91, 

 Mr. R. F. Towndrow records finding a tuft of C J. tenuis in the 

 parish of Gradley, Herefordshire, and that his specimens had been 

 confirmed as of this species by M. J. G. Baker of Kew. (Ed. 

 Scot. Nat.)] 

 Eriophorum capitatum. Host. 



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



" We fear Mr. Don had mixed, by mistake, some foreign or 

 cultivated specimens in his possession with the E. vaginatum 

 which is very common on Ben Lawers, and which alone we have 

 found there. Most specimens distributed by him belong to 

 E. vaginatum." Arnotfs Br. Fl. 



