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maritima, Eriocaulon septangulare, Schenus nigricans, Scirpus 
rufus, Rynchospora alba, Carex pauciflora, and other plants. 
Loch-na-gar was repeatedly climbed, and he added a new species 
to science, namely Alopecurus alpinus, from it, with many other 
rarities. The distant Cairngorm range was visited, and in 1802 
he discovered Carex vaginata on it, with several rare mosses ; 
Cairntoul was climbed, and he reports the occurrence on it of 
Lichen nivalis; Benn-na-Bourd and Benachie, as well as the huge 
Ben McDhu were also ascended; on the latter he gathered 
Luzula arcuata in 1812, and on his homeward march found 
HHypnum Schreberi and the lovely Hypnum Cristacastrense in 
fruit, in woods opposite Mar Lodge. The sea shore of the 
Moray Firth, the woods of Cullen, where he found Campanula 
bersicifolta naturalised; the neighbourhood of Gordon Castle, 
where he saw Pilularia; the fir woods of Grantown, where he got 
Goodyera repens; the sea coast of Aberdeenshire, where he 
found the elegant Pxeumaria maritima; and the coast of 
Kincardineshire, were searched, as well as the shores of Loch 
Leven, Loch Laggan, Loch Katrine, where he noticed the Cran- 
berry, Oxycoccus quadripetala, and the Gareloch, were explored. 
For these long rambles he was especially fitted, being stalwart 
and blessed with great powers of endurance, often journeying 
thirty or more miles without breaking fast for a period of twelve 
hours. He would bring home a heavy burden of plants for his 
herbarium, or roots to be planted in his garden, or, as was fre- 
quently the case, for sale to correspondents scattered over Britain. 
Among these correspondents was the Countess of Aylesford, 
a well-known botanist,! who had set herself the task of making 
water-colour drawings of the British plants. The drawings are 
now in the possession of a descendant, the Dowager Countess of 
Dartmouth, and the plants, instead of being thrown away, were 
kept, and are now in the collection of another descendant of 
Lady Aylesford’s, my friend, Miss C. E. Palmer of Odiham, and 
amount to no less than 120 species. It was the examination of 
this collection and the inspection of Don’s own herbarium which 
first convinced me that unmerited injustice had certainly been 
done to Don by a few botanists. 
‘See Turner & Dillwyn, ‘‘ The Botanist’s Guide through Eengiand and 
Wales.” London, 2 vols., 1805. 
