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examined, and four plants were found which had evidently been 

 healthy and vigorous when collected. From each a very minute 

 fragment was taken at random, — all four pieces could easily be 

 placed under an ordinary cover-glass, — and in all cases the so-called 

 " sclerotiets " were discovered. The plants were (1) from the 

 King's Garden, Montpellier, collected by Dr. Charleton (born 1619, 

 died 1707) ; (2) a plant collected by Boerhaave (born 1668, died 

 1738) ; (3) one of Plukenet's plants — Plukenet was born in 1642 

 and died in 1706 ; and (4) a plant " collected about 1660," as 

 labelled in Sir Hans Sloane's own handwriting. The two first 

 mentioned contain the bodies in question abundantly, and the 

 remaining two not so plentifully. These experiments and obser- 

 vations appear to me sufficient to prove (1) that the organism 

 constructed by Prof. Trail is a wholly imaginary one ; and (2) that 

 the bodies in question have no relation to the potato disease. 



NOTES ON THE FLORA OF BUXTON. 

 By Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, F.L.S. 



The following notes are, I believe, strictly supplementary to 

 those which have recently appeared in this Journal on the same 

 siibject by the Rev. W. H. Painter (1881) and Mr. J. G. Baker 

 (Jan. 1884). If they contain, as I hope they will be found to do, 

 additional records of some interest, this is due to the fact that my 

 stay at Buxton extended fi'om August 8th to September 8th (1884), 

 and that circumstances compelled me to confine my botanical 

 rambles all that time to the immediate neighbourhood of Buxton, 

 so enabling me to explore a very circumscribed district pretty 

 thoroughly at the best season. Such heights above sea-level as I 

 am able to give I owe to the information on that point supplied in 

 Mr. Baker's paper. The few stations which will be found here, 

 but not in either of the preceding papers, — viz., Chapel-en-le-Frith, 

 Whaley Bridge, and Bugsworth, — lie to the north of Buxton, and 

 are all, I believe, on millstone grit. 



Piammcidns Lenormandi F. Schultz. On Axe Edge, in two places 

 very near the top, over 550 yds. ; also in the hollow west of Buxton. 



Trollms europmis L. Rocks near Lover's Leap ; and near the 

 top of the hill opposite the railway-station at Miller's Dale. 



Aquilegia vulgaris L. With the last, near the top of the hill 

 above Miller's Dale, over 350 yds., in fair quantity, and undoubtedly 

 native. 



Sisymbrium officinale Scop. Monsal Dale, 200 yds., two or 

 three plants ; not seen about Buxton. — *S'. AUiaria Scop. Rocks 

 near Lover's Leap, 350 yds. ; Miller's Dale. 



Cardamiiie flcruosa With. Chapel-en-le-Frith; up to 350 yds. 

 about Buxton ; Ashwood Dale ; Miller's Dale. Quite common. 



Arabis TliaUana L. In one spot on the rocks near Lover's 

 Leap, 350 yds. 



Viola palustris L. Marshy ground near Buxton, both east and 

 west of the town ; especially abundant near the Reservoir. — 



