• BOTANY OF CHEADLE, STAFFORDSHIRE. 75 



Lunaria occurs in profusion; in a pasture near Wootton I saw 

 hundreds of plants in the space of a few yards : I also had 

 the pleasure of collecting it in Cheadle Park, — the very spot 

 where it had been found many years since by Sir Joseph 

 Banks, who was then Lord of the Manor of some large estates 

 in this neighbourhood. In the same pasture wherethis fern oc- 

 curred so abundantly, I took two specimens of Ludius cupreus. 



Needwood Forest has been given as a habitat for that rare 

 plant. Euphorbia Characias; I fear however it is now extinct 

 there : many botanical friends who have searched the spot 

 have not been able to discover it, and the Rev. T. Gisborne, 

 who has lived in that neighbourhood nearly fifty years, and 

 has made botany a particular study, states in a letter, with a 

 copy of which I have been favoured, that he has been equal- 

 ly unsuccessful. Eu. amygdaloides grows there abundantly. 



Among the peculiarities of our Flora I may mention that 

 the place of Papaver Rhosas is supplied by Pa. dubium ; so 

 exclusively so indeed, that out of a large number of red pop- 

 pies which I caused to be gathered from several localities, I 

 could not discover a single specimen of the former species. — 

 Another plant which is common in the south, but with which 

 I never met in Staffordshire, is Malta rotundifolia ; Malva 

 sylvestris is much less common than M. moschata. A white- 

 flowered variety of Calluna vulgaris grows sparingly on 

 Cheadle Common ; I am informed it is abundant about Bux- 

 ton, Derbyshire. 



The following is a list of some of the plants occurring 

 about Cheadle which have not already been incidentally men- 

 tioned. Those marked with an asterisk are on the authority 

 of various botanical friends. 



Ran u n c u lu s hederaceus Geranium pusillum 



auricomus lucidum, Alton 



— arvensis Rhamnus catharticus, Dovedale 



Genista anylica 



Corydalis claviculata tinctona 



Fumaria capreolata, Dimsdale Vicia Cracca 



Nasturtium terrestre angustifolia 



Cardamine amara, Dimsdale Orobus niger 



* impatiens, Dovedale Geum rivale, Cresswell 



*Hutchinsia petrcea, Dovedale Potentilla anserina 



Hesperis matronalis Comarum 



Viola canina Alchemilla vulgaris 



odorata arvensis 



(not hirta) Sanguisorba officinalis, near the 



-flavicomis, near Drayeott Delph House 



*Silene nutans, Dovedale Epilobium angustifolium, on a 

 Arenaria rubra rabbit-warren, Cotton 

 tnnervis Sedum acre 



Geranium pratensc, Cotton Telephium 



