132 THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEORGE DON. 
Potamogeton zosterzfolius, Schum. 
Rescobie, see Eng. Bot., Suppl., t. 2685 (1831). Don, Herb. 
Brit., No. 204 (1806), the first Scottish record, 
Luzula arcuata, Sw. (/uncotdes We O. Kuntze). 
See Eng. Bot., 2688 (1831), where Don is said to have 
gathered it on the Grampians; caeuas Sir W. J. Hooker is 
credited with its discovery in Smith, Eng. Fl. ii, p. 183. 
There is a specimen from Don in Herb. Palmer from the 
summit of Ben Mac Dowie [Mac Dhu], a high mountain near 
the head of the Dee. Don was on this mountain in 1812, an 
probably this is the earliest nbere specimen; he refers to it in 
his letter to Mr. Booth of 18 
Juncus tenuis, W7//d. 
Found by Don in ee in 1795 or 1796, and recorded as //. 
gracilis by Smith in Eng. Bot. t. 2174 (1810); there are 
specimens in his berbasrin and in that of Miss Palmer, etc. 
Juncus balticus, W7i/d. 
n the “Flora Scotica” of 1821, p. 104, under /. arcticus, 
but there are specimens in Don’s herbarium from the Sands of 
Barrie and near Montrose, labelled J. Aiiformis, which are the 
earliest known from ritain. Dickson aiso recorded //. 
ee habe from Batt Lawers, “but that much visited 
mountain” has never since been reported to yield the true /. 
filiformis, and although it has the credit of being the first 
Scottish rected I believe it to be so in name only. See Eng. 
Bot., Suppl., t. 2621 (1830). 
Juncus lampocarpus, £/rh., var. nigritellus (D. Don). 
Found in the Clova mountains, G. Don. See Eng. Bot., 
Suppl., t. 2643 (1830). 
Eriophorum alpinum, L. 
Found in 1791 by Don and Robert Brown in the moss of 
ak ae Forfar, SES eradicated by dredging the marsh 
for . Recorded in Eng. Bot., t. 311 (1796), and Trans. 
Gia ii. (1794), Pp. 290. See ‘Don, Herb. Brit., No. 26 
1804). 
Carex aquatilis, Wah. 
Distributed in sels Brit., No. a See es from the side of 
the Esk under the name of C. sf d the first as 
british, ge 4 Hecra: and Greville’s raed. in Eng, Bot., 
Suppl., t. 2758 (1832). 
