THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEORGE DON. 
search.' . The only ra vib to me seems that Don might 
have gathered a specimen of the Batrachian group, and planted 
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June and July as the date of flowering.? h 
distribution as given by Nyman in his “Conspectus,” is the 
Pyrenees, Jura, Alps, and Carpathians. 
Caltha oe Forster. 
“Forfar Don (known now in cultivation only).” 
Hooker, Student's Fl. (1870), p. 9 
“Mr. T. F. Forster, who first defined this species of Caltha, 
. . . favoured us with this specimen from his garden, which 
agrees with wild ones sent by Mr. G. Don from Scotland, 
except that in the latter the stems are more erect. Mr. 
Forster’s plant was found in ch a by Mr. Dickson.” 
mith, Eng. Bot., xxxi., t. 2175 (1810). 
= C ies may bi retained as a book species, ‘in com- 
pliment to its author’; but it is no species in nature, apart 
from C. palustris. Hooker glade places the one as a variety 
of the Spies Watson, Cyb. Brit., i., p. 93. 
“Province 15, in a_ ditch, oe Forfar, 1790, G. Don.” 
Watson, Comp. Cyb. Brit., i., p. 477. 
See also Babington, Mar; Ed. vii., p. 12 (1874). 
“Var. B. radicans, Hook. ‘Ina ditch that runs from the 
fain housd “talled Haltoun, on the estate of C. Gray, Esq., of 
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n plant.” Garainek FI. Forfar 
“Is only known, and in our opinion =e never been known, 
except asa garden variety.” Hooker and Arnott, Brit. Fl. 
1 This requires ualification, as Scottish botanists know. The costal, 2 eee 
bears witness to search at a time when the plant might have been in flower :—‘‘ Dr. 
Graham starts about the end of April for the mountains of Clova with a seat party 
in quest of some of the spring flowering plants said to have been found by the late 
G. Don, such as Tussilago alpina, Hierochloe borealis, and Eriophorum alpinum, 
& Cc. bb) 
1834.— 
Winch ee Linn. Soc.; James Macnab to N. J. Winch, 23rd April, 
2In the Royal Botanic Garden plants grown in frames do not flower earlier than 
May.—IJ. 2B. B 
