268 The Scottish Naturalist. 



Triticum cristatum . Sch reb. 



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



" On steep banks and rocks by the seaside between Arbroatli 

 and Montrose. Mr. G. Don, who alone has found it. Gard. 

 Flora Forfar* 



" Prov. 15, Forfar. G. Don, Lunan Bay, Arbroath. 



Ambiguity, Cyb. iii. 237. Specimens from Don are in herbaria. 

 Com p. Cyb, Br. 597. 



" Could not have been indigenous, it being a plant almost 

 peculiar to the east of Europe and Asia." Arnotfs Br. Fl. 



" Said by Mr. Don to have been found by him on steep rocks 

 between Arbroath and Montrose. Mr. H. C. Watson states that 

 in a letter from Sir W. Trevelyan, dated August 19, 1839, he re- 

 marked that " T. cristatum was then abundant by Lunan Bay near 

 Arbroath;" but in 1845 Mr. Gardiner asserted, in his Flora of 

 Forfar, that Don never found it." Fug. Bot. 



" Discovered by Mr. Don on steep banks and rocks by the sea- 

 side between Arbroath and Montrose, flowering very sparingly." 

 Fug. FL, 32, 2267. 



Specimens of this are in Don's collection of grasses, etc., labelled 

 between Arbroath and Montrose, and also in Miss Palmer's. 

 It may have been only a casual introduction. 

 Hierochloe borealis, L. 



" Recorded from Glen Cally by Don, but that place has bee 

 minutely searched without success. Don's specimen appears to 

 have been cultivated." Arnotfs Br. Fl. 



Cyb. Br. iii., 153, says: — 



" Incognit., Glen Cally, G. Don. No other botanist, perhaps, 

 has found this grass in the locality named, which is a long, narrow 

 valley descending from the high mountains near the head of 

 Canness into Glen Isla. It does not grow about the head of the 

 glen, which was carefully examined in July, 1843." Gard. Flora 

 Forfar, 199. 



" Formerly in Forfarshire." Stud. Fl. 



" Glen Kelly or Cally, Forfar ; Mr. Don." Bab. Man,, vii., 412. 



With respect to the ' minute search ' referred to by Arnott, it is 

 only fair to say that one of the searchers afterwards stated that 

 although he had made a careful search, from what he had since 

 learned from Mr. Dick about the flowering of the plant, i.e., that 

 it flowers in Caithness early in May, after which it withers, and 

 becomes impossible to find, and considering his search was made 

 much later in the year, he withdraws his previous statement. 



