APPENDIX E.—INDIGENOUS GRASSES OF BRITAIN. IOI 
APPENDIX E. 
OBSERVATIONS on some of the Indigenous Grasses of 
Britain, which seem deserving of Culture for Pasture 
or 
By Mr. Georce Don, Gardener, 
Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 
Ducente Natura, sequar. 
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 
That the reader may be enabled to form an idea of the oppor- 
tunities enjoyed by the author, of investigating the subject on which 
he presumes to offer some remarks in the following essay, it will be 
necessary for him to give a very short account of his professional 
pursuits and habits of life. 
This essay is seme from Transactions of the Highland Society of Scotland, 
vol. vii. (1807), p I am indebted to Mr. James Macdonald, F.R.S.E., Secre- 
tary of the H ighland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, for the — 
memorandum explanatory of the circumstances in which it was written by Georg: 
Don 
ee is ike year 1805 the Highland and Agricultural Society ame amongst other 
premiums a Piece of Plate value 20 Guineas for the best Essay on ‘ Our Native Plants 
and Grasses,’ a Committee being appointed as usual to ponents ne Essays sent in. 
“This Committee presented its Report at a Meeting of the Directors of the Society 
on 10th January 1806, and from the Minutes of that Meeting it is learned, 
(1) that the Piece of Plate value 20 Guineas was awarded to the Rev. W. Singers, 
Minister af Kirkpatrick, near Moffat, for his Essay on ‘ Our Native Plants and 
Grasses,’ 
(2) mae a — of Plate value 15 Guineas was awarded to ‘ aa George Don of 
the Botanical Garden, Edinburgh,’ for an Essay on the same subjec 
“Ina cae of a Meeting of the Publications Committee saa ath March 1806 
there is this n 
‘The spa, puis laid before the Committee an addition given in by Mr. Don 
‘ to his Essay on Our Native Plants, &c., pointing out such as are not proper to be 
* cultivated.’ _ 
‘* The Minutes of a MeetIng of the same Committee held April 3, 1806, show that 
it was then arranged that the Essays by both Singers and Don be published in the 
3rd volume of ‘ Transactions ’ (1807).” 
