APPENDIX G—LETTERS. 277 
anthos nigr a ee ih 
tokesii—stramineum — confertum — tenellum — intricatum — 
llecebrum_—alpinum—abreviatum—chrysophyilum. Mnium androgy- 
‘ a teres Up ratiaetees ae a 
fiiperira m 1 here re oe um — all your rare 
> soap Bry um] Hypnum poljmorphum Partislia d seal 
ere . <.}  lepi — elegans—leptalea — furva — series a 
Resiosk _- Silticidiorum — Slorotote — frustulosa — lacera — 
sageni He amylacea—sopho Se ee ee s— 
in with in Bene send me a good many specimens 
eel in my herbarium for some time past but means to sate 
I am yours ve 
Sd.) G. Don. 
I will thank you to send me what of the growing plants of my 
disiderata you can as the season is now arrived. G. D. 
The following letter to Mr. Sowerby is now in the British 
Museum, Cromwell Road, and is reproduced here by permission 
of the Keeper of the Botanical Department. It shows that Don 
appreciated the importance for botanical purposes of the difference 
between cultivated and native specimens, and that he endeavoured 
when contributing to the “English Flora” to prevent misapprehen- 
sion on the part of its authors as to the source of the specimens he 
sent to them :— 
George Don to Mr. Sowerby. 
Forfar May 22, 1709. 
Mr. ene ys 
—I have sent you a few plants as I understood aoe the 
Pecans that is Dryed will not Answer Drawing. I shail send 
up Every 2 weeks through the summer if they will ssier you a 
vas as they —e into flower as I sent you up at a former ee 
ive specim You will find that owing to my soil a 
ee that a Differ very little from the — — _ Yours 
N 
N.B. When I have not sent before native speciments I “hall send 
in course pois with the green speciments native ones at the same 
time. G. Do 
ee on the cover] Mr. Sowerby, No. 2 Mead Place, 
beth, London 
