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the Animals to be found there,” which forms Appendix B to 
“General View of the Agriculture of the County of Angus or 
Forfarshire,” compiled by the Rev. James Headrick, minister of 
Dunichen, and published in 1813.' In it he mentions ninety 
species of flowering-plants, a hundred mosses, and a hundred 
and twenty lichens from Clova. The sub-alpine plants lying 
between the alpine district and the lowest part of the valley of 
Strathmore are noticed ; there he discovered Caltha radicans 
and Crepis pulchra, the latter a casual plant, since extinct (Smith, 
Eng. Bot. t. 2325, and Syme, Eng. Bot. v. p. 217). Then he dis- 
cusses the flora of the lochs and marshes in the neighbourhood 
of Forfar, where he planted S¢raziozes, and he noted nine species 
of pond-weeds from Rescobie Loch. He next describes the plants 
growing between the valley of Strathmore and the sea. Lastly, 
the sea-coast, from North Water Bridge, Montrose, Arbroath, 
Sands of Barrie, Dundee, and the banks of the Tay to the 
western boundary of the county, are pleasantly described. 
Altogether about three hundred “larger and rarer plants” are 
enumerated, and he says that most of these could be seen growing 
in his garden at Forfar. Don makes a rather scathing criticism 
upon the views of a Dr. Richardson of Ireland, on the qualities 
of the fiorin or bent-grass as a food for cattle, for, as the book 
was specially written in the interest of agriculture, special atten- 
tion was given to the nutritive qualities of the native grasses. 
Don also gives lists of fuci, confervz, zoophyta, infusoria, 
mammailia, birds, fishes, insects, worms, molluscs, and testacea ; 
for he had a very considerable knowledge of zoology as well as 
botany, being a naturalist in the true sense of the word. 
That Don succeeded for a time with his garden is evidenced 
by the following “ Account of Forfar Garden,” from the pen of 
Dr. Neill, which appeared in “The Scots Magazine” for June, 
1809 :— 
“The existence of a flower garden and flower nurseries at Forfar, 
which for number, diversity, and rarity of the hardy plants cultivated 
in it are perhaps scarcely to be surpassed in Britain, is a fact not 
generally known. We think it right to give it what publicity is in 
our power, both as a piece of interesting information to botanical 
amateurs, and of justice to the indefatigable exertions of Mr. George 
A reprint of this is given as Appendix F to this Memoir.—/. 2. 2. 
