APPENDIX A.—REPUTED DISCOVERIES. 101 
Neither the specimen in Miss Palmer’s collection nor that in 
the “Herbarium Britannicum” has any mica adhering to the 
roots. Arnott, in the “British Flora,” says a 5 i 
specimens from Drummond as well as Don; t som 
Sg alg exists, although not of an entirely P eetatarlary 
aracter, since Drummond may have sent them from the 
Fon r garden. 
he plant named Avenaria fastigiata by Smith is the Alsine 
dena Koch 
Sagina alpina, Druce, in the “Scottish Naturalist,” p. 177 (1884). 
“Top of Ben Nevis, Don.” See Student’s Fl. (1870), 
p. 61 [as a var. oe S. mariti oo 
“Prov. 16. Summit of Ben — ; G. Don. Apparently 
not found by any iiag cians and the summit of Ben Nevis 
is pages destitute of phzenogamous plants.” Watson, Comp. 
Cyb. Bri 
. vot seems to sae found it on Ben Nevis.” Bab. Man., 
Ed. vii., p. 53. 
See also S. maritima Don, var. alpina, Syme, Eng. Bot., ii., p. 117. 
eee Don found this plant on Ben Nevis in 1794 
for, s Mr. Watson els ewhere asserts that with Don the 
sp eee of mountains” means “‘declivities many feet below,” 
the fact that the summit of Ben Nevis is almost destitute of 
phzenogamous plants does not Bian ae Don’s assertion. It 
was my good luck in company Mr. E. Robe Bae of Burn- 
side, 2 orfar, to find a Bagwedi i upper t of Corrie 
u, which Mr. Arth. Bennett says he 
cannot ee apart Seon Don’s plant. See Annals Scott. Nat. 
Hist., p. 273 (1892). 
Stellaria scapigera, Willd. 
“Sides of rivulets on the mountains of Badenoch, between 
rivulet on a untain to the sactwards fe) evis, 
Siivernese hike" ” has Herbarium Britannicum, No. 10 (1804). 
‘Wild specimens of this new and curious Sée//aria have been 
obligingly communicated to us by Mr. G. Don, who nee 
them at different times of the year ron t 1803 
plant was received by the younger meets bin ‘the Kew 
garden but its native country was altogether unknown 
till Mr. Don’ Ss fortunate discovery.” Smith, Eng. Bot., xviii. 
t. 1269 (1804). 
“S. scapigera parently of mons oie of S. 
Sraminea, and probably wees "Dons gar gar some plant he 
met with’ bei eing mistaken b for Ne sane as the one he 
had in cultivation.” Syme, Le ‘Bots ii., 99. 
