George Don, Forfar, [Forfarshire], to [James Edward Smith]

• Main Author: Don, George
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Cochlearia groenlandica
• Online Access: http://linnean-online.org/64866/; http://linnean-online.org/64866/1/JES-GD-71_001.tif; http://linnean-online.org/64866/2/JES-GD-71_002.tif; http://linnean-online.org/64866/4/JES-GD-71_003.tif; http://linnean-online.org/64866/6/JES-GD-71_004.tif; http://linnean-online.org/64866/8/JES-GD-71_005.tif; http://linnean-online.org/64866/10/JES-GD-71_006.tif

Still waiting to hear Smith's opinion on those plants he sent himself and via [Charles] Lyell. Numbered observations on enclosed mosses he previously sent to [Dawson] Turner, also without response: 2. [sic] a 'Grimmia', would like to name it after W Symonds, who died in Barbados; 3. a 'Grimmia', proposes name 'G. alpina' or 'G. nivalis'; 4. a 'Hypnum'; 5. another 'Hypnum'. Numbered observations on enclosed plants: 1. 'Potentilla tridentata' [Smith annotation: "right"]; 2. 'Lychnis alpina' [Smith annotation: "right"]; 3. 'Ranunculus alpestris' [Smith annotation: "right"]; 4. a 'Silene' resembling 'S. alpestris' [Smith annotation: "the 'Silene' will be sent in my next"] 5. a 'Crepis' [Smith annotation: "'pulcra' HL"]; 6. 'Cochlearia groenlandica' [Smith annotation: "right HL"]; 7. the true 'Erigeron uniflorum' [Smith annotation: "right!"]; 8. a 'Saxifraga' cultivated for 2 years in strong, rich, wet soil [Smith annotation: "new, the 2 darkest specimens green specimens is cultivated in the wet soil!"]; 9. a 'Cerastium' [Smith annotation: "'Stellaria cerastoides'"]; 10. 'Fontinalis pennata' of Linnaeus [Smith annotation: "'Neckera pumila'"]. Enquires after specimens he sent some years ago as 'Spergula maxima' and 'S. arvensis' [Smith annotation: "both 'arvensis'"]. Two small specimens, labelled "2".