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From:
George Don
To:
Samuel Goodenough
Date:
12 May 1811
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/GD/36, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Uncertain whether to continue sending specimens to Goodenough until he hears back from regarding previously sent ones.

Numbered remarks on enclosed specimens: 'Saxifraga', marginal note suggests it may be 'S. petraea' of Linnaeus; 2. 'Lamium' possibly true 'L. maculatum' of Linnaeus [Smith annotation: "not wild?"]; 3. 'Poa', may be just 'P. annua' variety; 4. 'Lichen alcicornis' of Lightfoot. Asks Goodenough to forward this letter to Dr [James Edward] Smith.

2 specimens of grasses.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
George Don
To:
Samuel Goodenough
Date:
Jun 1811
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/GD/37, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Numbered observations on enclosed specimens: 1. a 'Saxifraga'; 2. a 'Saxifraga' different from all palmated ones currently described; 3. previously unnoticed 'Saxifraga', close to 'S. elongella', proposes name 'S. fragella'; 4. 'Cerastium' like 'C. arvensis'.

Asks Goodenough to forward this letter to Dr [James Edward] Smith.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
George Don
To:
Samuel Goodenough
Date:
3 Jun 1811
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/GD/74, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Following receipt of letter from their mutual friend [Charles] Lyell concerned to hear that [John] Mackay [(1772-1802), nurseryman and gardener] has been credited in "English botany" as sending the 'Saxifraga pedatifida', which he claims is impossible as it is very rare and only found in the Clova mountains; offers to send plants botanists are not well acquainted with so as to be cultivated in gardens.

Encloses specimens of 3 varities of 'S. pedatifida'; an 'Arenaria' he proposes naming 'A. charlinfolia', observations. Points out that Smith has credited [Robert] Brown with finding 'Sagina maritima' in 1798 on coasts of Ireland and Fifeshire, when he himself found it in 1784 on Ben Nevis.

Asks Goodenough to forward this letter to Dr [James Edward] Smith.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
George Don
To:
Samuel Goodenough
Date:
27 Jul 1811
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/GD/75, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Numbered observations on enclosed specimens: a 'Triticum' first found in 1793 on Ben Lawers, and never encountered again until 1810, proposes name 'T. alpinum', very rare but now established in his garden; 2. leaf of 'Iris xiphium', thinks it indigenous; 3. leaves of an 'Alchemilla' larger than 'A. alpina'; 4. leaves of an 'Anthyllis' different from 'A. vulneraria' and the coastal 'Anthyllis'. Asks Goodenough to forward this letter to Dr [James Edward] Smith.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
George Don
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
6 Oct 1811
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/GD/76, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Sends by [James Townsend] Mackay [(1775-1862), curator of Botanic Garden, Trinity College, Dublin] of Dublin 'Arenaria Cherlerifolia' from Ben Lawers, 'Triticum alpinum', a common 'Myostis' from the Clova Mountains, and a 'Centaurea' found by Mr Young at Bellmount Castle. Discovered 'Chorophyllum aromaticum' in a wild state about seven miles from Forfar and 'Iris xipheum' in Marsh of Logie.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London