108 THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEORGE DON. 
my lamented friend Henry Boswell, namely, that plants of 
A. alpina which he brought from Ben Lawers changed under 
wed me were certainly the latter; but Mr. Arthur Bennett 
serum the statement, and I should not think it probable. 
Syme points out that moe _ much more readily in 
original occupier, and Don himself may have been the victim 
of the same misconception as Mr. Boswell. 
A. argentea is known from the Faroe Islands, and Nyman 
also gives Scotia and Isle of Arran, and it has been reported 
from Cumberland, but only on faith of a record by Mr 
Bowman and of garden plants said by the distributor, the 
ev. R. Wood, to have been originally brought from Borrow- 
dale, but no one has confirmed the discovery. Dr. Tyacke also 
says he found it in Glen Sannox, Isle “ Arran. See Syme, 
ot., iii, p. 139, t. 424. Syme says a portion of one of 
Black’s specimens is only A. alpina, age the other portion 
approaches A. alpina. 
Saxifraga muscoides, Wu/f. 
‘“S. moschata, Sm. Mr. Don [Donn] of Cambridge [has] 
given us specimens from his garden, the parent roots of which 
he side from the Highlands of Scotland.” Smith, Eng. 
ot., os 
See ‘ Highla Error. Cyb. 
Grit; 3, p- =f 5." " Watson, Contes Cs. Brit. P oe 
ne of Don’s reputed discoveries ; ported from 
Westmoreland by Hudson.” Hooker, sscass FL (1870), Pp 
477- 
The only record made by Don is in Headrick’s View of the 
Agriculture of Forfarshire, in which he records Reece fot i nova 
Doe which I believe to be the S. muscoides illd ss 
is is evidently a mistake on Don’s es as this eat abe | is 
not likely to be found in Scotland, its European range being 
according to Nyman, “ Pyren., Arvern. , Juras, Alpes, cig 
Don’s record, it ain be observed, is by no nee Paes 
more correct statement would be “A A form of re 
from the mountains of Forfar was el para Raaaee ‘34 Don 
to be the S. muscoides of Willdeno 
Saxifraga pedatifida, Ehrh. 
“Mr. G. Don and the late Mr. J. Mackay both gathered this 
plant in the Highlands, the former on the mountains of Clova, 
Angusshire. Our figure is naveciably taken from a garden 
