178 THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEORGE DON. 
FascicuLus [X.--—1806. 
[Not issued before 1812, but probably either at the end of 1812 or 
early in 1813, since the Eng. Bot. plate Myosotis rupicola issued in 
1813 is not cited. ] 
Se aia Anns oat oe Bot., t. 763; Curt. Fl. Lond,, fase. 
! Mare 
- ditches and — holes, not unfrequent, as in the neigh- 
bourhood of Forfar 
202. Veronica fruticulosa, Zug. Bot, ¢ 1028.  Flesh-coloured 
Shrubby Speed-well. 
My specimens are from the garden wall at Colinton, where 
it was planted by the late Reverend Dr. Walker, who, we 
understand, brought if from Ben Cruachan, a high mountain i in 
Argyleshire. I have never seen it on Ben ’Lawers, and I 
no doubt but the Povcibeta saxatilis has been mistaken for re 
{Not a native of Britain.—G. C. D.] 
203. Scheenus fuscus, Eug. Bot, ¢. 1575 en < oe Moris. 
[Pl. Hist. Untv., Oxon., Pars. , Sec.|, p. 8, 
For the specimens of thi is plant I am nde - Mr. J. 4 
Mackay, of Dublin, who collected them in a wet bog near 
Purple Mountain, Killarney ; ; and at the haceatie of the hill of 
Capil, Cunnamara, and also vai Ballynahinch and 
Oughterard, in 1805 
[This is Rynchospora fusca, R. & S.—G. C. D.] 
204. Potamogeton compressus, Ang. Bot., t. 478 ; Fl. Dan., t. 203. 
Flat-stalked Pondweed. 
In the lake of Rescobie and also in the lake of Forfar. Else- 
where I have never observed it 
[This is Potamogeton coslerafolius Schum., and the first 
certain Scottish record. —G. C. D.| 
205. Myosotis alpinus. 
Myosotis ceespetosis, radix perenne foliis radicalibus ovatis 
oblongis petiolatis, caulinis paceolats subamplexicaulibus, 
floribus fasciculatis amplioribus cyan 
This species differs.from the cue storpicitice and all its 
varieties, in being a perennial; and from the Myosotis palustris, 
in having its radical leaves supported on slender petioli, 
ciliated ; as are also the leaves ; the hairs on the growing plant 
bent backwards. The radical leaves of M. palustris are 
lanceolated and can be hardly said to have a petiolus, The 
