114 THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEORGE DON. 
Centaurea intybacea, L. 
“In the fields by the ek in iealethes places in Forfarshire,” 
and said by Don to have bee onfounded with C. Scabiosa, 
which it much resembles.” Bon, in Headrick’s Agric. Forfar. 
“C. Scabiosa. A variety was ae on dry banks, near 
the sea coast of Angusshire, by the late Mr. G. Don, which he 
thought distinct, and took for a c: siayhands of Lamarck . 
but has no specific mark.” Smith , Eng. FI., iii., p. 468 
“Tt seems likely that Don may ae Ss the above name 
to the pale-flowered variety of C. Scabios . the resemblance 
between the two species not being Kiar as to render their con- 
fusion very probable.” Watson, Cyb. Brit. ii, p. 91. See also 
Comp. Cyb. Brit., p. 532. 
“Said to occur in Forfarshire by Mr. G. Don—no doubt a 
pale-flowered variety of C. Scabiosa . . . as suggested by 
Mr. Watson.” Syme, Eng. Bot., v., p. 216. 
In this instance there is no d oubt Don mistook a form of 
C. Scabiosa for south-western C. intybacea, which is not likely 
to occur in a wild state in Britain. 
Crepis pulchra, 2 
“ Not at present known in our gar me though said to have 
been cultivated at Chelsea in Rand’s time. Mr. Don rightly 
determined it to be a Crepis, and the cheaen specimen decides 
its species.” Smith, Trans. Linn. Soc., x., p. 345 (1811). 
“ Amongst has Cs on the hill of Turin, near 
Forfar.” Smith, Eng. Bot., 
The plate is ‘dae rom a lant raised from seed sent by 
Don, who found it wild in 1 
“Incognit. G. Don ae that he had found this plant 
: Fon the hills of Turin and Pitscandly in Forfarshire, 
but very rare. In one of these places—the hill of Turin—it 
was sought unsuccessfully by Mr. Gardiner in 1845, who says 
(FI. Forfar., p. 99 - . a "turnip field now occupies the spot.” 
Watson, Cyb. Bri See also Watson, Comp. Cyb. 
ao ; Pe S25, “ Paid gten, "Man., Ed. vii. p. 209. Hooker, 
‘ + Pp. 2 
“Mr. = Doe: said that he found this plant among the débrts 
of the rocks of the oe of Turin and Pitsandy gouge tt - 
Forfarshire. Dr. Walker Arnott remarks in 
Flora,” ‘The very few specimens from Don Se —- pee 
seen, are more luxuriant than Smith’s acknowledged cultivated 
one, from which the igure in ‘English Botany’ was made. 
Syme, E ng. Bot., v., p. 2 
“One of Don’s saat discoveries? Hooker, Student's Fl. 
« (1870), p. 478. 
