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that to Don Széda/dia must have been one of the commonest 
plants, and must have been known to him in its varied forms. 
Surely one who could differentiate the forms of the cut-leaved 
Saxifrages, and of the piping Poas and Airas, could never have 
confounded those two plan It is a curious coincidence that 
both P. tridentata and 5 eerie alpesiris are said by Don to 
have been gathered on the same day, namely April 3, 1809, a date 
on which I venture to think no other capable botanist has ever 
visited the higher hills of the Clova district;! but I must confess 
the occurrence, as a native plant, of either of the two species, 
to notice the figure in Jacquin’s PI. rar. ic. cent. i, t. 91, which 
exactly agrees with my plant.” Don, Herb. Brit., "No. 165. 
“Mr. Donn of Cambridge has aed from Scot- 
land the true opaca.” Smith, Eng. Bot., t. 2449. 
Presumably it came from Don. 
“P. opaca, Clova mts., Don; never confirmed; but the 
specimens are a intermedia [Nestl]. ” Hooker, Student’s FI, 
Se P- 476 
, Linn. Sah eee ae of Clova and ae. of 
“Received from Scotland by the late Mr. Donn of Cambridge. 
Said to have been found on the hills of Clova, Angusshire, as 
well as in Perthshire, by Mr. G. Don.” Smith, Eng. FI, ii, p. 
423. See also Hook ker, Fl. Scot., p. 163. D. Don in’ Mem. 
Wern. Soc., iii., (1821), p. 305. 
st ot ‘alert Nestl. Said to corte been found by Mr. G. 
. ut not found by any other botanist, and his 
ont * lone is ae sufficient Ae establish its occurrence.” 
ng. Bot., iii, p. 260. See Babington, Man., Ed. vii. 
Mr. ‘Davi id Don, son of Mr. gk Don, says that the 
Potentilla was first discovered by his father, and tha at he 
himself saw coecaed when they a freshly brought from 
* See footnote on page 98.—/. B. B. 
