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THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEORGE DON. 
Draba muralis, Pet., Herb. Brit., t. 48, f. 5 ; Eng. Bot, t.gr2! 
In a field behind the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, where my 
specimens were collected. It has likewise been found by Mr. 
Robertson at Bellevue near Edinburgh, and appears 4s be 
indigenous there. 
Carex le ag Trans. Linn. Soc., tt. (1794), t. 19, f- 3; 
Eng. Bot 
On the Palau Hills near Edinburgh. My specimens are 
from the neigbourhood of Forfar, where it grows plentifully. 
C. diandra, Schrank (C. teretiuscula, Good.), which is still 
plentiful at Rescobie near Forfar.—G. C. D.| 
. Carex pulla, Zrans. Linn. Soc., tit. (1797), t. 74. 
: first observed this plant on Ben Lomond in 1789, and on 
awers in 1798, and on Ben Nevis in 1794. I sent 
sauidiens of this plant to Mr. Dickson of Covent Garden in 
1794; andl ae a letter of that date in which Mr. Dickson 
acknowledges it to be a nondescript. How he afterwards 
considered himself to be the acer ta of this plant I cannot 
explain. If Mr. Brown’s information be correct, the Rev. Mr. 
Stewart of Luss had been aiid with this plant some 
years before 
|C. saxatils, L. First recorded for Perthshire in Trans. 
Linn. Soc., iii. (1797), p. 78.—G. C. D.] 
_C, pilulifera, 7/7. Dan., t. z0g8 ; Eng. Bot., 885! 
On heaths not uncommon, and on the summit of Arthur’s 
Seat and Pentland Hills near Edimaie My specimens are 
from the neighbourhood of Forfar, where it grows abundantly. 
. Carex stricta, Zrans. Linn. Soc. it. (1794), t. 27, f. 9. 
Carex cespitosa, Huds. and Lightf., var. b. 
Carex acuta, a, Leers, Fl. Herborn., p. 207, t. 16, f. 1; Eng. 
Ot., t. O14. 
I es seen this a in several places in Scotland; but it 
is of the rarer species. My specimens were collected from the 
side of the river Esk, near Eskmount, three miles from Brichen 
in Angusshire. 
is is Carex aquatilis, Wahl., var. e/atior, Bab., the first 
British record, and the first clearly ascertained ’ specimen 
known, I believe, for Britain.— DJ 
. Carex vesicaria. 
C. inflata of Lightf.,, Huds.; F7. Dan., t. 647; Eng. Bot., 
t. 1770 
