126 THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEORGE DON. 
APPENDIX B. 
GEORGE DON’S DISCOVERIES. 
We have now a pleasanter duty in enumerating the more 
important of Don’s undisputed discoveries, which amply bear 
out the remarks of Sir James E. Smith! in regard to his 
“scientific merits and eminent zeal.” 
Ranunculus nivalis, Z. 
High mountains near Mar Lodge. An alpine form of 
a se specimen in Herb. Palmer and letter to Mr. Booth, 
Caltha radicans, /orsé. 
Discovered at Carse in Forfarshire in 1790. | New to science. 
See Eng. Bot., t. 2175 (1810). 
Cochlearia alpina, Wats. (C. grenlandica, Sm.). 
Loch-na-gar, 1807. See Eng. Bot., t. 2403 (1812). New to 
science. Smith mistook it for Linnzcus’ C. groenlandica. See 
Trans. Linn. Soc., x. (1811), p. 344. 
' ** Notwithstanding the numerous additions to the British Flora, owing to 
the labour and acuteness of various er ven, a of Mr. aera within the 
last 20 years, new discoveries of th rewarding 
the zeal of the new votaries to botany. I need only advert to the  Buxbaumia 
pao the Sess of new Lichens, Fuci, and Conferve, and the numerous 
mongst our more recent acquisitions, in proof of my assertion. 
ror richest patio we have for a long time had was communicated to me in the 
course of last summer by Mr. George Don of Forfar, whose scientific merits and 
eminent zeal are sufficiently known to the Linnean Society. I have chosen a part of 
these treasures for the materials of my earliest tribute to the Society, at its first 
meeting for this season, after the long vacation. The plants shall be enumerated in 
systematic order, with such remarks as I may think useful or amusing to British 
botanists, accompanied by characters and descriptions of such species as, from their 
oa and obscurity, may require that sort of ——— in Trans. Linn, 
y &. (1811), py 333. 
