APPENDIX G.—LETTERS. 257 
George Don to N. J. Winch. 
Forfar, May 11th, 1802. 
Sir,—I received your letter a few days ago, and shall be very 
glade to exchange plants and speciments—no one likes a faithfull 
correspondent more than I doe. You mention some good things 
that is to be found in your neighbourhood, although I have all them 
except Ribes petraeum and Bartsia Alpina, although I have found 
Bartsia about 50 miles from Forfar, but could not remove it to grow. 
But I should be obliged to you to pot and plant it and 2 of G[entiana] 
Verna and try to establish them in 2 pots as the only way, and save 
seeds of Thalictrum major and Cistus marifolius and speciments, as 
[ have but a weak plant of Gentiana verna and Cistus marifolius. I 
should be obliged to you to send a catalogue of all the rare plants 
nea : ; : 
on the Bark of a willow tree in the Botanic Gardens while on a 
visit to our mutual friend Mr. J. Mackay who is no more. In calling 
back to my mind that worthy man excites painfull sensations in my 
breast and wound my feelings deeply. Besides this Orthotrichum 
obtusifolium I have 4 or 5 more I believe are non Descripts and I 
have sent them to Dr. Smith but have received no answer from him as 
yet, but I suppose from them and some other Cryptogama I have 
sent him, he will require some little time to determine some of them. 
I have also Discovered a new Spergula I call maxima and a new 
to him also, and Stellaria scapigera of Wildenow, Dr. Smith informs 
me that neither he nor Wildenow knew its proper habitat, and 
Potamogeton hetrorophullum, Fl. sesilis and another one I have not 
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