IIo THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEORGE DON. 
“Scotland, Don; not confirmed.” Hooker, Student’s FI. 
(1870), p. 477. 
Mr. David Don says he saw the specimen when brought 
home by his father, as inthe case of the supposed Poftentilla 
paca. have no doubt that Don found this plant as a casual, 
since, although it has a wide European distribution, it is not 
likely t to be native in Britain. There is a specimen in Herb. 
alm 
Chzrophyllum aureum, L. 
“T discovered this rare plant several years ago, by the sides 
of cornfields between Montrose and Arbroath. I afterwards 
found a few plants near Corstorphine, within four miles of Edin- 
rgh. I observed what I believe to be an intermediate plant 
between this and the C. sy/vestre, near the village of a Bae 
about ten miles west from Bri 
No. 207. me also Bane Eng. Bot., t 2103 (1810), and Trans. 
Latin. SOc, x. i. 9 (1 1811). Don, in Headrick’s Agric. 
Forfar. ; Heck. Palmer * Gardiner, F1. F orfar., p. 85. 
Wires. 14-15, Edinburgh and Forfar; G. Don only 
Error or casual. Cyb. Brit., i, p. 463.” Watson, Comp. Cyb. 
Brit., p. 520 
“Mr. G, nee not found since.” Syme, Eng. Bot., iv., p. 180. 
“Scotland, Don; not confirmed.” Hooker, Student’s FI. 
(1870), p. 477. 
Don’ = he nts in Scotlan I have ee a solitary specimen 
of a yellow-flowered Urabellifer which I think is a Cherophyllum 
but not aureum, near a mill in Berkshire, but at present I have 
not been able to identify it. 
Galium cinereum, Sm (G. diffusum, D. Don). 
G. d sie D. Don, ined. Near Kinnaird, Angusshire. G. 
Don.” Hooker, FI. Scot. , pam 
“On the bcs of the river Leith, near veers three miles 
E. from Edinburgh. Mr. G. Don.” Smith, Eng. FL, i 4 Pp. 203 
See also Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. oe (183 eS 
G. diffusum, Hook. G, eum, Sm. . Of this I 
have only — RE as eee from Don contained in 
Smith’s herbar . « . It must be considered as a Pad 
doubtful mative, 35 = one but Den has found it.” Syme, Eng 
Bot, iv, p: 215, t bis 
a Regres on See G. Don. Ambiguity. See Eng. 
, iv. sect 216. Eng. Fl. i, p. 203.” Watson, Comp. Cyb 
Brit Pp "521 
