44. COMPOSITE. 61 



but a specimen so named in Winch's herbarium, from the 

 " foot of Ben Nevis," is H. Lawsoni. The real question 

 seems thus narrowed into the single one, whether Thomas 

 Drummond, or any other botanist, ever collected the true 

 H. villosum on Loch-na-gar, or on the rocks above Loch 

 Callater ? — or, whether H. Lawsoni was collected in those 

 places, and cultivated, or foreign specimens of H. villosum 

 erroneously substituted for it in herbaria ? For my own 

 part, I can place little trust upon the specimens in old 

 herbaria, the alleged localities of which now remain uncon- 

 firmed ; because botanists of the Smithian school, from a 

 quarter to half a century ago, undoubtedly labelled garden- 

 grown specimens as if from native localities. Indeed, 

 within very few years past, I have known an elderly and 

 respected botanist take a numerous series of specimens from 

 his garden, label them fi-om native localities, as if wild spe- 

 cimens, and even put dates on their labels, indicating them 

 to have been gathered nearly thirty years before. 



577. HiERACIUM AMPLEXICAULE, LinU. 



Area (**3*********** 15). 



Alien. Established on the walls of Magdalen College, 

 Oxford, and on those of Cleish Castle, Kinross. According 

 to G. Don, it occurs on the Clova Mountains. 



" HiERACIDM DIVARICATDM," Don. 



Area [15]. 



Incognit. On rocks among the Clova Mountains, ac- 

 cording to G. Don ; but I know not what he intended under 

 this name. 



