112 THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEORGE DON. 
A casual plant which I have found on waste ground near 
Oxford. ; 
Galium saccharatum, 4//. 
“G. tricorne. In cornfields, rare. Ihave observed it in 
the Carse of Gowrie. It has likewise been o rahe in corn- 
fields near Malton, in Yorkshire, By cs: Mr. R. Miller.” 
Don, Herb. Br it., No. 103. 
WG. verrucosum. Whether this species of Gaum, confounded 
by almost all our botanists with our éricorne, has ever been 
gathered in Britain before Mr. Don observed it in cornfields 
near the Carse of Gowrie, we have no means of knowing.” 
Smith, Eng. Bot, sub. t. 2173 (1810). 
“Mr. Borrer writes that his ‘specimen from G. Don is like 
at 
in Britain; ‘eee if so, it was doubtless as a casual intro- 
duction only.” Wa atson, Cyb. Brit., iii, p. 449. Watson, 
=. Comp. Cyb. Brit., p. 522. 
“Probably echteters with seed corn.” Hooker and Arnott, 
Brit. Fl, Ed. vii. 
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'G. ee All. “Said tohave been found . . . in the 
Carse of Gowrie, Forfarshire, b r. G. Don, and see 
eg oe Yorkshire, by Mr. R. Miller; but it does not appea 
to hav n permanently naturalised in these localities.” 
Syme, tig: Bea iv., p. 232. 
Doubtless found by Don in the Carse of Gowrie, but as a 
casual plant only, and [I think it probable that the Malton 
plant was true éricorne, for which Don mistook this species. 
Tussilago — Ey Giomogere eS Cass.). 
arrybar we ar 
not on that account prepared to admit: he ne plant as indigenous.” 
Hooker and Arnott, Brit. Fl., Ed. vii. 
“Mr. G. Don mentions 7. Uke an n Austrian plant, found on 
the Clova mountains. ‘Ma s plant not be the L7igeron 
lpia which he has not enuitierated? : we ‘Gaitioee Fl. Forfar., 
Pp- 
c ae bas Included, like so many other dubious plants, 
among discoveries in Se ee but no other 
botamist appears to have found it i Britain. - Mr. Gardiner 
suggests that Don intended Evigeron aiinah but it is difficult to 
