106 THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEORGE DON. 
their native habitats, and his description is drawn up from 
specimens in his father’s herbarium. David Don was only is 
or 16 years old at his father’s death, and he appears to be th 
authority for his father finding it on the Braes of Balquhidder. 
The specimens in Don’s Herbarium Britannicum are certainly 
not the true P. opfaca, and are, as Sir Joseph Hooker points 
out, P. intermedia, Nestl., n ot of Linn., the P. Nestlerana, ee 
which Nyman puts onder 2 _leptapoa, Miller. The figu 
in ears ‘Icones” refer Don is poorly sree 
aed P. opaca Nyman in his eis ba gives Scotia, 
Scandinavia, Dania, Germania, &c., but the true P. opaca 
(which is not an unlikely plant to occur) has not been recorded 
exceptinerror. P. intermedia, Nestl., is quite unlikely to occur 
in Britain except as an alien 
Sanguisorba media, L. 
“ Sangutsorba media. In pastures, in the West of Scotland. 
+ Don. Taller and larger than the fore egoing, with a 
much longer _ truly cylindric spike of paler flowers. Mr. 
on, who sent it, had scarcely an idea of its being more than 
a va riety. Yet it is certainly the plant of the authors quote ed 
[Linnzeus, Willdenow, Aiton], and is found wild in Siberia as 
well as in Canada.” Smith, eng. FL, i, p: 2192 
“SS. (officinalis) media, Don (not Linn.). Prov. is. or 16. 
West of Scotland; G. Don Syn. 354. .. Cyb. Brit, 1, 360. 
- “A variety of S. officinalis, “Mr. Borrer.” Wataie, omit Cyb. 
Brit., p. 509. 
“Incognit. Stated to have been found by Mr. George Don 
in the 4 a of Scotland; but some variety of the British 
species, S. officinals, would seem to have been mistaken for 
the ae plant. ”” Watson , Cyb. Brit., i., p. 360 
“One of Don’s_ reputed dacs not ‘eatirtied.” 
Hooker, Student’s FI. (1870), p. 476. 
Mr. Borrer says he has Don’s specimens. 
“Said to have been found by Mr. George Don in the West 
of Scotland, but doubtless erroneously, as it is an American 
= not occurring at all in Europe.” Syme, Eng. Bot., iii., p. 
a repeats a misstatement when he says that Don said he 
found S. media. He did nothing of the kind. He “had 
scarcely an idea of its being more than a variety” of [S. 
