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THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEORGE DON. 
“This hill has since been searched by Mr. Kerr and a party 
from Montrose, but without success. It may, however, h 
authentic specimen gathered by Don, is in Mr. Kerr’s 
herbarium; and there is a specimen among the remains of an 
herbarium formed by Mr. Douglas Gardiner in 1813, which had 
likely been given to him by Don, as they were intimate friends.” 
ao Fl. Forfar., p. 61. 
1 Mountains, Don; never confirmed.” Hooker, 
Students FI. (1870), p. 476. 
“Werron Hill, Clova, G. Don; but found by no one else.” 
Hooker and Arnott, Brit. Fl, Ed. vi., p. 124. 
“Incognit. The late Mr. G. Don appeared quite confident 
that he had seen or collected this species in Forfarshire ; and 
there is even a specimen preserved in Smith’s herbarium, which 
is labelled as —— actually collected on the mountain of 
oe in that county, by Mr. Don, with the date of April 3, 
gr it aes that Mr. Don could have mistaken plants 
and have sent or pointed out to Smith an example of 
wideninto a ‘bein same species as that which he had 
seen on Werron and other hills? I do very much suspect that 
a 
venting to send or show the same spe cies, he or Smith 
ee confused it with some other species.” Watson, 
Cyb. Brit., i., p. 348, and iii., p. 418; also Watson, Comp. Cyb. 
Brit., p. sor. 
“Said to have been found by Mr. G. Don on Werron Hill 
and East Rocks, Loch Brandy, Clova; but no doubt Sibbaldia 
Ge ot ai has been mistaken for this ‘American plant.” Syme, 
ng. Bot., iii., p. 260, and Babington, Man., Ed. vii., p. 103. 
At a meeting of the Edinburgh Boeisicsl ie March 14, 
1850, Mr. M‘Nab exhibited a dried specimen of P. tridentata 
sent by Mr. Westwood, of the Botanical Garden, Dollar, as a 
part of a plant panes by him and Mr. Stewart on Ben Wyvis, 
about ten ait go's 
earl a the year) and planting it in the Potentil/a bed in his 
SS n, subsequently Se it with as A ge toes but this 
explanatio on requires one to assume mount of 
ignorance on the ls art of Don, ng I feel ne reutint "difficulty 
in adopting it. In his al record Don s no 
uncertainty respecting it rie Boies out that its beautiful white 
flowers at once distinguish it ; and one must also bear in mind 
