218 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Watson asked me to work at th botany of West Ross-shire and 
Wigtonshire, of which at that time no list even of the common 
plants had been made. Accordingly, in 1880, I visited West Ross, 
and made a list of nearly four hundred species and varieties, the 
great majority of which were additions to the count 
specimens o st were secured, and the list appeared in the Rep. 
over five hundred were new county records. This list appeared in 
the Rep. of Record Club for 1888, pp. 65-76. The list of West Ross 
. New- 
bould, for use in another edition. All these are qu “ New- 
bould’’ by Mr. Bennett in his Supplement, which is inaccurate, and 
I think unfair to both Mr. Newbould and myself. For instance, 
Vicia gracilis, which is credited to him, he knew nothing about ; it 
was misnamed, but the history and correction of the error will be 
misleading to see his name connected, without any explanation, 
these (and it may be other recorders are treated in the same way) 
the more correct citation would surely be to quote the finder’s name. 
A CLaripcE Dru 
ewbould’s name as the only aut ority he knew. With regard to 
$ . W. Fisher; it was, however, recorded 
by Mr. Druce, and his record is naturally assigned to it by Mr. 
Bennett. It is clearly desirable that some botanist of repute 
cited as an authority, in preference to an amateur 
whose determination may not be accurate, or who has found the 
plant, as Newbould used to say, “empirically.” We may take the 
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