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The Scottish Naturalist. 



specimens, were to be published every year until a complete 

 collection of dried native plants had been made. Each fasciculus 

 was to contain at least a due proportion of the alpine plants of 

 the north of Scotland, which are rare and of difficult access. 

 " Since," says he, " the editor first began his botanical excursions 

 into the Highlands of Scotland, in the year 1779, he is confi- 

 dent (and he hopes he may mention it without the imputation of 

 vanity) that he has traversed more of the Caledonian alps than 

 any other botanist has ever done. He has repeatedly ranged 

 over the great mountains of Angusshire which surround the dis- 

 trict of Clova, where no one on a similar pursuit had preceded 

 him. He has also searched the vast range of mountains which 

 stretch about sixty miles through the district of Knoydart, in 

 Inverness-shire — a region which had never before, nor has since, 

 been examined by a botanical eye. He is the only botanist, 

 too, who has explored the lofty mountains of Cairngorm, and 

 the great hills in its neighbourhood." Duplicates — where they 

 could be got — of all the rarer mosses, were given — one speci- 

 men for the Herbarium, and another, inclosed in a little packet, 

 that may be moistened for minute examination. The name and 

 habitat of each plant were printed on a slip of paper and pasted 

 on the page opposite. The contents of each fasciculus was 

 printed and pasted on the outside of the blue paper boards 

 forming the cover. As it is not likely that there are many of 

 these fasciculi in their original state — the plants having been 

 taken out and distributed among other collections — I shall give 

 the contents of No. IX. as a specimen. On the cover is the 



following : — 



HERBARIUM BRITANNICUM. 



By G. Don. 



Fascicuhis IX. 



201. 

 2. 



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4- 



205. 



6. 



Hippuris vulgaris. 

 Veronica fruticulosa. 

 Schcenus fuscus. 

 Potamogeton compressum. 

 Myosotis alpinus. 

 Pulmonaria maritima. 



7. Chserophyllum aureum. 



8. Scheuchzeria palustris. 



9. Vaccinium oxycoccus. 

 210. Polygonum fagopyrum. 



11. Cerastium aquaticum. 



12. 11 arvense. 



13. Astragalus campestris. 



Containing 



14. 



215. 



16. 



17. 



18. 



19. 



220. 



Satyrium albidum. 

 Carex rariflora. 



11 salina. 



11 rigida. 



11 limosa. 

 Equisctum sylvaticum. 

 Fontirialis squamosa. 



21. Hypnum molluscum. 



22. 11 crista castrensis. 



24. 



225. 



11 Schreberi. 



11 purum. 



Lichen nivalis. 



