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smith Nursery in the last century, by the ancestor of the present firm. 
I know of no tribe of Fungi which exhibits more various forms, or 
more natural genera. Many species probably might reward future 
researches in this country ; but the search for Hypogseous Fungi is so 
laborious, and it may be added so exclusive, when carried on persever- 
ingly, as it -was by Messrs. Broome and Thwaites, that they are not likely 
to be very numerous. Octaviana compacta is, x)erhaps, the most recent 
addition to our list. 
A VISIT TO GLEN CLOVA AND CALLATEE.* 
BY G. CLARIDGE DRUCE, F.L.S. 
To the Botanist the name Clova is one of the most interesting 
among the many rich and fertile places which still remain in Britain, 
and I derived such pleasure from a recent visit, that I thought it 
probable some of the members of this Society interested in Botany 
might care to hear the results of a few days’ botanising in a district 
discovered, I may say, by Don, a florist of Forfar, who began a rough 
and hard life’s labour by an apprenticeship to a watchmaker, after¬ 
wards removing to Glasgow, where he obtained a situation as assistant 
to the Professor of Botany. He then went to Edinburgh, where he 
eventually made the acquaintance of Sir Janies E. Smith, who 
frequently quotes him in his “ English Botany ; ” but, as with Murchi¬ 
son’s friendship with Kobert Dick, no pecuniary advantage accrued to 
Don from it. 
Don returned to Forfar and obtained a small piece of ground, which 
he turned into a botanic garden, and in which he grew a great collection 
of the rarer alpine plants : this garden he called Dovehill. To obtain 
the plants he made long excursions over the country, his favourite 
ground being the hills of Clova, and to these, some thirty miles from 
Forfar, he would walk with no provisions besides some oatmeal or 
bread and cheese, and no shelter save his plaid, loaded with his paper 
and bag. 
For living plants he would ransack the rocky glens and bleak moors 
and spongy morasses, adding to our British flora that most lovely 
willow Salix lanata, with its leaves covered with golden-coloured 
down, the pretty little pink-flowered Lychnis aljjina on Culrannoch, 
the graceful alpine Cotton Grass at Bestennet, the rare grass Calaina- 
yrostis stricta, and Caltha radicans, near Carse, which, since 1790, when 
he found it, had disappeared, till recently it has been refound in the 
vicinity by my friend Mr. Peter Graham, who kindly showed it me 
this summer. 
Besides the above, Don added a willow, Salix Doniana, about which 
there is some doubt as to itsindigenity. With the mosses he was almost 
* Read before the Birmingham Natural History and Micx'oscopical Society, 
December 19th, 1882. 
