500 THE LIFE AND WoRK OF GEORGE DON. 
the Glen Esk locality, peng sent in the fresh state by Don. 
It is neither A. ciliata nor A. alpina, but a form of A. hirsuta, 
though more glabrous dhe usual. The error in identifying it 
with the ari aes appears to be due to Mackay and Smith 
and not to 
Silene nipestrin: Jacq. 
“ A specimen of this plant gathered by Mr. G. Don ‘on a 
rock on a mountain to the east of Clova, Angusshire,’ is in Mr. 
Borrer’s Herbarium,” (Babiagton. Man., Ed. vii. p. 51). 
Watson, Cyb. Brit., i. p. 203. Gardiner, Fl, Forfar., p. 27. 
See also Syme, Eng. Bot., il., p. 134. 
“They appear certainly . obtained from a garden.” 
Hooker and Arnott, Brit. on Ed. vi., p- 59- 
“One of Don’s reputed Spoeunles Hooker, Student’s Fl. 
(1870), Pp. 475. | 
“Prov. 15. Forfar; ‘G. Don in Borrer Herb.’ Error?” 
Watson, Cyb. Brit.,’i. ’D. 203. “Specimens from Don are now 
distrusted.” Watson, Comp. Cyb. Brit., p. 490. 
A very unlikely plant to be found in Forfarshire. Don 
never published a record of it himself, nor have I seen a speci- 
men labelled so by him. 
Arenaria fastigiata, Sm. 
“Mr. George Don had the good fortune to discover this new 
British plant on rocks in the mountain of Clova, Angusshire, 
and also in Fifeshire. He rightly referred it to ’ Jacquin’ s 
fasciculata.” Smith, Eng. Bot., xxv., t. 1744 (1807). 
It was previously distributed by Don in “ Herbarium 
Britannicum” No. 136, where Don = “It is several years 
age I first observed this plant. [in] Clova, but very 
I have likewise found it on some rocks in 
Fifeshire, but rare. My specimens are from Clova.” 
Alsine Semis, Bab.” “Prov. x8. Forfar ; Fife; G. Don. 
“Dr, 
Error?” Wats n, Cyb. Brit., 1,226: Arnott intimated in 
the ‘British Flora’ that he ‘was in Bessa of Clova 
specimens ‘from Drummond,’” Watson, Comp. Cyb. 
Brit., p. 491. 
dw Don’s successor at. Forfar, and he 
may have possibly sent them from Don’s gar 
s pectin: this has no a 
of side adhering to the roots, as most frequently happens with 
plants gathered on the Clova mountains, where it purports to 
have been gathered.” Syme, Eng. Bot., ii, pp. n14 and 115, 
