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THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEORGE DON. 
the last fifteen years in several localities in England, Wales, 
— and Scotland; but we owe its discovery to Don and 
Dickso Mr. Watson Betiberately ignored Mr. David Don’s 
duaifiemasion of his father’s record, which was also overlooked 
by the other critics of Don’s record. 
Eriophorum capitatum, /osz. 
been brought by alpine torrents from some _ still more 
inaccessible part of the mountain. His cimen agrees 
exactly with those sent by Prot. Schrader, ae aia Switzer- 
land.” Smith, Eng. Bot., t. 2387. 
See Hooker, Fl. Scot., p. 20. Smith, eee EL, dy Po 67 
vaginatum.” Hooker and Arnott, Brit. F1., Ed. vii., p. 498. 
“There is no ‘ perpetual’ snow on Ben be ers. 
_ must be remembered, however, that Gearce Don was very 
inexact in describing localities, and that a bad description of a 
station will not necessarily imply intentional falsehood. There 
is said to be a specimen from oe in the herbarium of Sir 
W. J. Hooker which ‘resembles £. capitatum, but the upper 
i is tri (Babington, Man., Ed. ii., p. 
52.) This is unsatisfactory. Is the specimen one of capitatum, 
or not? By the triangular stem it should rather be vaginatum. 
And yet, by the ‘British oaced it would seem that Don’s 
specimens were those of £ re suggested to be of 
foreign origin.” Watson, Cyb. Brit. . 82. 
“ Error. sceureoncinl 2?” Watson, Comp. moe sass p. 587- 
without doubt to the same species.” Syme, Eng. Bot., x., p- 
174. 
“E. polystachton (L.) J 8 minus. An alpine form, has but one 
nearly sessile spike. £. capitatum, Don ?” Babington, Man., 
Ed. vii., p. 385. 
There is in Don’s own herbarium a specimen labelled “EZ. 
capitatum, on Ben Lawers and Clova mountains. I discovered 
this in 1810.” It is a small alpine form of £. vaginatum, L., = 
a E. capitatum, Host, which is synonymous with E£. Sche 
vi, Hoppe, as the stems are decidedly trigonous, and sie 
