MEMOIR. 59 
On leaving Dupplin he went southwards, living some time in 
Worcestershire, probably as gardener to Lord Plymouth at his 
seat of Hewell Hall,as under Geranium columbinum, in his “Herb- 
arium Britannicum,” he says he observed it “in cornfields near 
the seat of Lord Plymouth.” From this neighbourhood he also 
records several other plants for the first time for that county, 
including the hart’s tongue fern, Phyliitis Scolopendrium, the 
gipsy- wort, Lycopus europeus; the water chick-weed, Stellaria 
aquatica ; and the procumbent cinquefoil, Potentilla procumbens ; 
and in cornfields near Redditch in 1784, for the first time as a 
British plant, Galium spurium, but this only as a casual, not a 
native, species. Don also noticed two or three plants such as 
Stellaria aquatica, and records them for the first time for 
Warwickshire. 
Probably on his return Don passed Oxford, as he says he saw 
the Oxford ragwort, Senecio squalidus, in the neighbourhood of 
that classic city. 
He spent also about six months at Broadworth, five miles from 
Doncaster, and records several species, including Teesdalta 
nudicaulis and Cerastium arvense, from that neighbourhood, but 
all these had been previously published when he issued his 
“Herbarium Britannicum,” 1804-12. 
In the early part of 1789 he was in London,? probably employed 
in one of the nurseries, for he remarks of Matricaria Chamomilla 
(Herb. Brit., No. 118), “I observed this plant as a common weed 
in nurseries nd gardens near London, particularly on the Surry 
side,” and he refers to having seen Lythrum Salicaria (Herb. 
Brit., No. 164) near London, and under Potentilla opaca (Herb. 
Brit., No. 165), he says the P. ofaca of English authors appears 
to be the P. verna; at least such was the case with the plant 
cultivated in Mr. Curtis’ garden at Lambeth Marsh. He also 
Says he has seen Campanula Rapunculus by the sides of hedges 
near Millbank, but it appeared hardly indigenous, and in his 
herbarium there is a specimen of Briza maxima from Newington 
Butts, but of course only as an escape from cultivation. 
*“T lived in Yorkshire half a year at Broadworth, near Doncaster.” — 
Winch eden Linn. Soc.; G. Don to Mr. N. J. Winch, May rth, 
4802.—I, B. B. 
? Don says “ ¢ When I was in London, about the year 1786.” See p. 199 of 
these “ Notes.”—/. B. B. 
