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APPENDIX G.—LETTERS. 271 
G. Don to N. J. Winch. 
Forfar, Feb. 18, 1810. 
_ Sir,—I received your letter in due time and I shall lose no time 
in sending you part of your Disiderata with several valuable and 
interesting additions they will leave Dundee by the first ship for 
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yet I flatter myself they are respectable and likely to continue— 
and on my part shall exert every endeavour to make them interest- 
ing—if I remember right I have sent you the new plants which I 
have given in my 7 and 8 numbers which are Campanula persicifolia, 
Sagina maritima, nova species, Potentilla opaca of Linn Rotboella 
filiformis—I am to send you a package for Mr. Harriman which I 
beg you will take the trouble of forwarding along with yours if 
you would have the goodness to send the specimens you have 
numbers—I formerly sent you a long list of Desiderata particularly 
of plants of my Garden I beg you will add Rosa collina and your 
which I understand is not uncommon——{illegible] and——{illegible] 
and Rubus caesius but I do not want Rubus corylifolius as I have 
you have got it pray send me it. I observed it among specimens 
collected in Derbyshire about 14 years ago. Is it possible to send 
me Anthemis maritima I have never seen it. I likeways wish much 
for Juncus acutus and maritimus and your new species and Crepis 
foetida and Hyderserus hirta can you send me plants or seeds 
of any of those you collected in Surry, did you not fall in with the 
Specimens of all those even for my own private [?] herbarium. I 
must leave you to collect such specimens as you can with con- 
