APPENDIX A.—REPUTED DISCOVERIES. III 
“One of ‘aoe reputed discoveries.” Hooker, Student's 
Fl. (1870), p 
A better seals would be a casual plant formerly found 
by G. Don in Edinburgh and Forfar 
G. aristatum, Sm. 
“In Saree but not common. Mr. G. Don.” Smith, 
Eng. FL, 
“This new aadiinn to our Flora, sent by the late Mr. Don 
G. erectum, is Saget dly ‘the original G. aristatum 
described by Linn Smith, Eng. Fl. i. p. 203. See also 
ng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2784 (1834). 
‘Probably a state of G. erectum.” Babington, Man., Ed. vii., 
p. 170, 
Given as = gee of G. erectum in Hooker’s Student’s FI. 
(1870), es 
“G. erectum var. aristatum, Bab. Evidently one of the inter- 
siediate: “forts which connect the two sub- -species.” Syme, 
Eng. Bot., iv., p. 217, t. 649 bis. See Watson, Comp. Cyb. 
a 
. Don wa 
correct in ee it to G. erectum, to which it is closely 
allied. There is great “ere of the plant being again 
found. 
- Galium spurium, Z. 
“I first observed this plant in 1784, in cornfields near the 
village of Redditch in Worcestershire . 5 nex 
observed it in 1801, in cornfields near the village called Loch- 
head, about two miles from Forfar mmon. Dr 
Smith, who had the goodness to compare specimens of this 
Galum with the Linnean Herbarium, found that my plants 
agreed in every respect with the ‘iiiaiean specimen.” 2 6. 
Don, Herb. Brit., No. 104 
See ne Sith Eng. Bot. t. 1871 ee: and under G. 
tricorne, (1806); Gardiner, Fl. Forfar., p. 93; Herb. 
Palmer; Fidoker: FI, Scot., p. 50. 
“Mr. G. Don is said to ee discovered aieke in Forfar, and a 
specimen is preserved in Smith’s her but Mr. Gardiner 
appears not to have found same pieces in that county.” 
Watson, Cyb. Brit., ii., p. 2 
“Casual.” Watson) ee Cyb. Brit., p. 522. 
“Scot. (7), Angl., Scand., med. mer., Germ., Belg., Gall., etc.” 
Nyman, Consp., p. 330. 
