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210. 
215. 
THE LIFE AND WorRK OF GEORGE DON. 
Polygonum fagopyrum, Eng. Bot. ¢. 2044 Buck-wheat. 
In cornfields; but I think it can hardly be considered 
indigenous. 
|Fagopyrum esculentum, Moench.—G. C. D.] 
SA comer Pen. Eng. i t, 538; Curt. #2. Lond., 
fast. I 4. Water Chickwee 
This, pee a common plant in many parts of England, is 
nevertheless a very rare plant in Scotland. I have never seen 
it but in one place, viz., in the neighbourhood of Dundee, and 
here it was extremely ra rare. It is very common near Bir ming- 
ham, and also near Bromsgrove, in Worcestershire. | 
oF eerie is Stellaria aquatica, Scop., and the earliest record for 
rwickshire and Worcestershire.—G. C. D.] 
. Cerastium arvense, at Bot., t. 93; Curt., Fi. Lond., fasc. 6, 
t.29! Field Chickwee 
In fields in the eee of Forfar, and near Broads- 
worth, about five miles from Doncaster, in Yorkshire. 
Dae” AE ore aera Haller, Hisé.,¢., p. 177, ¢. 13: Field 
Milk Vet 
I pao this nee seer ape ae to Britain, on a 
rock on the Clova mountains in July 1812. I have a specimen 
in my herbarium aitiected bret (1 believe from SeAtzerianid) 
thee ah exactly with those I have found on the Clova 
untains; and Dr. Smith informs me he has plenty of Swiss 
=pecimens ‘which differ in no respect from mine, and that he 
has others from Oeland differing only in being smaller and 
more silky. I have seen some of them of that appearance. 
es named wines by Linneeus, it is truly an alpine 
plant 
[This j is Oxytropis campesiris, DC, of which Don was, as he 
says, the discoverer as a British plant. —G. C. D.] 
. Satyrium —_— Eng. Bot., t. 505; Fl. Dan., t. 115. White 
Satyrion 
In dry, hilly oe ertee as in the Forest-muir near Forfar, and 
in the Glen gilvie near Glammis. My specimens are ‘from 
the Clova nicnietidiis. 
[This is Habenaria albida, R. Br.—G. C. D.] 
rariflora of Wahlenberg, in the “Stockholm Trans- 
“actions, ” Carex limosa, var. y of Willdenow. Thin-flowering 
Carex. 
