120 THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEORGE DON. 
examined hill, therefore even now I have confidence that a few 
more of his oe discoveries” will in the not distant 
future also be verified 
Carex hordeiformis, Wahi. 
“One of Don’s reputed discoveries.” Hooker, Student’s FI. 
(1870), p. 480 
“Prov. 15. “Forfar. , Thomas Drummond. Error. Watson, 
Cyb. Brit., iii., p. 143.” Watson, Comp. Cyb. Brit., p. 591. 
“Small valley about three miles west of Panmure; Mr. T. 
Drummond.” Gardiner, FI. Forfar., p. 217. 
This appears to be “one of Don’s reputed discoveries ” which 
he never claims to have made. It should read, “One of 
Drummond’s reputed discoveries.” 
Carex laxa, Wahi. 
“Clova mountains, Forfar; Don. Err . Headrick’s 
Agric. Survey of Forfar.” Watson, Goa. Cyb. Brit., p. 591. 
Phleum Michelii, 4//. 
“Discovered by Mr. G. Don on rocky parts of the high 
mountains of Clova, Angusshire. This specimen agrees with 
authentic Austrian, Swiss, and Italian ones . except in 
being less luxuriant, o wing probably to its more speihien, or 
more aos —, of eS, ” Smith, Eng. Bot., t. 2265 (1811). 
“Incognit. Don, in Headrick’s ‘hewioaliial Survey of 
Forfarshire’ ‘feayele Lately I discovered three other grasses 
new to Britain, viz., a Avena PO [As Meche . 
hese Se atie row on the ves summit the hi ghest 
mountains. cee — Micheli pe nil? 
A 
possibility of Don having seen the one 
substituted the other for it.” Watson, Cyb. Brit., iii. pp. 157 
“Forfarshire. G. Don, sole authority. Error.” Watson, 
Comp. Cyb. Brit., p. 592. 
“No one has ssbeeeded in verifying Don’s discovery ; ; the 
specimens given by him were cultivated ones.” Hooker and 
Arnott, Brit. Fl, Ed. vii., p. 533 
“ Said to eee been as te on the . highest mountains 
of Forfarshire by G, Don, but by no oneelse. Mr. H.C, Watson 
suggests that possibly ’ the long-awned form of Alopecurus 
