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XIV. An Account of several Plants, recently discovered in Scotland 

 bij Mr. George Don, A.L.S., not mentioned in the Flora Bri- 

 tannica nor English Botany. By James Edzvard Smith, M.D. 

 F.R.S. P.L.S. 



Read Nov. 21, and Dec. 5, 1809. 



Notwithstanding the numerous additions to the British Flora, 

 owing to the labour and acuteness of various observers, especially 

 of Mr. Dickson, within the last 20 years, new discoveries, of the 

 most interesting nature, are continually rewarding the zeal of 

 new votaries to botany. I need only advert to the Buxbaumia 

 aphylla, the abundance of new Lichens, Fuci and Conferva, and 

 the numerous Salices, which are amongst our more recent acqui- 

 sitions, in proof of my assertion. 



The richest harvest we have for a long time had, was commu- 

 nicated to me in the course of last summer by Mr. George Don of 

 Forfar, whose scientific merits and eminent zeal are sufficiently 

 known to the Linnean Society. I have chosen a part of these 

 treasures for the materials of my earliest tribute to the Society, 

 at its first meeting for this season, after the long A'acation. The 

 plants shall be enumerated in systematic order, with such re- 

 marks as I may think useful or amusing to British botanists, ac- 

 companied by characters and descriptions of such species as, 

 from their novelty or obscurity, may require that sort of illus- 

 tration. 



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