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DESCRIPTIONS OF SEVERAL 



XX* — Descriptions of several New or Rare Na- 

 tive Plants, found in Scotland, chiefly by the 

 late Mr George Don of Forfar. 



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By David Don. 

 (head 8th April 18Z0.) 



Although a few additions to the Flora of one 

 of the regions of Europe, whose vegetable produc- 

 tions are already well known, may not be interest- 

 ing to botanists in general, yet they nevertheless 

 deserve regard from the botanist who confines him- 

 self to the study of the plants of that particular 

 country. To him they are highly interesting, not 

 perhaps on account of their varied beauty and sin- 

 gular form, qualities in which plants of more fa- 

 voured climes excel, but probably as illustrating 

 certain points of botanical geography, and the re- 

 lations which the plants of other countries with- 



