266 The Scottish Naturalist. 



" Prov. 15, Perth and Forfar. G. Don sole authority. Error? 

 Cyb. hi., 129. Eng. Bot. 137." Comp. Cyb. Br. 588. 



Sm. Eng. Fl. vol. 34, 2404, says : "Gathered in watery places 

 on micaceous soil on Ben Lawers by Mr. Don, the only person 

 who, to our knowledge, has met with this species in Britain." 



" Stated to have been found ' on Ben Lawers, very rare ' by 

 George Don, so rare indeed that not one among the many botanists 

 who have since been on that often examined hill, have again 

 found it." Cyb. Br. 3, 130. 



Bab. Man., ed. vii., 398, says : — "Specimens are preserved in 

 Don's collection of sedges labelled 'Ben Lawers, 1810.' There 

 is mica adhering to the roots." {Vide note in Scottish Naturalist, 

 1884, p. 190, Proc. Perth. Soc. Nat. Sci.) 



Miss Palmer has a specimen from the same place. 



There is little doubt that Don actually gathered the plant some- 

 where in the Lawers district. Mr. Sturrock shrewdly suggests that 

 Don was not only a botanist but a florist ; and we gather from his 

 correspondence there was a good deal of jealousy between Don 

 and other workers, so that he may have purposely extirpated the 

 plant in the locality where he found it, and this may be also the 

 case with other plants. If so, his botanical reputation has paid 

 dearly for this short-sighted policy. 



Nyman gives the range as Scot. (Ben Lawers), Norv, Suec. bor.,. 

 Lapp., etc. 

 Car ex hordeiformis Wahl. 



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



" Drummond, we suspect, found this species among his collec- 

 tions without any memorandum as to where they had been gathered, 

 and drew the conclusion that they were obtained in one of his 

 excursions. Arnott's Br. P/ora. 



" Said to have been gathered in Den of Panmure by Mr. T. 

 Drummond ; but Arnott suggests they were accidentally gathered 

 in the garden at Forfar." Eng. Bot. 



Prov. 15; Forfar. Th. Drummond. Error, Cyb. iii. 143. 

 Gard. Plor. Porf. 217 — Small valley about 3 miles west of Pan- 

 mure ; Mr. T. Drummond. 



" Perhaps accidentally sown." Bab. Man. vii., 402. 



This appears to be one of " Don's reputed discoveries " which he 

 never claims to have made. 

 Car ex laxa Wahl. 



Clova mts., Forfar ; Don. Error. Hendrick's Agricult. Survey 

 of P"orfar. Co nip. Cyb. Br. 591. 



