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will, by such powerful aid, constitute perhaps as complete a cata- 

 logue of vegetable productions as any country can boast. The 

 alpine region of Clova, though so successfully investigated by Mr. 

 Don, has yielded a great number of novelties to Mr. Drummond of 

 Forfar. But these discoveries, interesting as they are to the British 

 Naturalist, shrink into nothing in comparison with what he has 

 brought home from the alpine regions of North America ; and some 

 account of these must form the subject of an article in this Journal. 

 There are botanists however, we cannot but believe, who are suc- 

 cessfully pursuing their career, from the purest and most disinterested 

 love of the science, alike "unknowing and unknown" as respects other 

 botanists ; believing perhaps that their discoveries, made under such 

 disadvantageous circumstances, cannot be valuable to the more ex- 

 perienced labourer in the field. It was accident that made us ac- 

 quainted with such an one, whose name stands at the head of this 

 article. We had solicited permission to publish in the Flora Lon- 

 dinensis his important discovery of the Cotoneaster vulgaris * as a 

 native of Britain, and had afterwards the pleasure of making an ex- 

 cursion into the Highlands of Scotland with him. We parted at 

 Killin, where Mr. Wilson remained for some weeks, botanizino- in 

 the neighbouring mountains, which are known to be very rich in 

 plants. The following observations are the result of these excursions. 

 We give the list as it is ; for though the species which compose it 

 are not all of such rarity as to be particularly interesting to those 

 who are in the habit of exploring alpine districts, yet there are few 

 whose localities may not be acceptable to some collector ; and they 

 are stated with considerable .minuteness and accuracy. The remarks, 

 be it observed, are chiefly with reference to Sir J. E. Smith's English 

 Flora. ■ 



Aspidium Lonchitis : particularly fine and abundant below Craig 

 Calliach. 



* This plant Mr. Wilson found in Wales, in which country and in the neigh- 

 bouring border of England he has met with many interesting productions, not be- 

 fore known as existing in Britain : amongst them is Bjjum affme, of Schwacgrichen, 

 which was detected in a wood at Over, Cheshire, sparingly and in swampy ground, 

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