184 SOME MORE NOTES ON DOVEDALE PLANTS. 



Red Sandstone at Bradley Wood, a heathy wood on the hillside 

 1^ mile E. of Ashbourne, and I know of no station for it between 

 that spot and the Staffordshire moorland district N. of this village. 

 — In the hedges near Bradley Wood occm-s B. Lindleianus in great 

 plenty ; and very sparingly U. umhrosm, which, like li. fi-ssiis, is a 

 plant of the Staffordshire moorland, and, with it, skips over the 

 intervening limestone district to appear on the sandstone E. of 

 Ashbourne. The country to the south and east of Ashbourne seems 

 to possess a fair list of brambles ; but as I have had very few 

 opportunities of investigating them, and as one or tAvo of those which 

 I have met with are not satisfactorily determined, I refrain from 

 mentioning more than those, to whose absence from the lime- 

 stone tracts Mr. Baker has called attention, li. discolor. Tissington 

 and Dovedale, where this was seen by Mr. Baker, are its chief 

 quarters hereabout. I think I am safe in saying that, from that 

 part of the Ashbourne and Buxton road where it was crossed by 

 Mr. Baker and his friends on their way to Dovedale, the remaining 

 fourteen or more miles of the distance to Buxton would only have 

 shown them one other bush of it. li. discolor is a late-flowering 

 species, and very rarely ripens its fruit hereabout. It was killed 

 down by some of our recent severe winters, whilst li. pallidus 

 seemed unaffected by the cold. Ascends to about 900 ft. near New 

 Inns Farmhouse. — R. raviosus Bloxam ! Between Youlgrave and 

 Eobin Hood's Stride. A much more prickly bramble than Mr. 

 Briggs's Devonshire ramosxis, and I should have hesitated to think 

 that they could be the same ; but my plant (and I believe Mr. 

 Briggs's also) were named by Mr. Bloxam himself. I have also 

 found the same plant a mile or two N.W. of Hartington. — 

 Pi. anqdificatus Lees. Bare ; one bush at Sandy Brook, near 

 Ashbourne, seems to be this, although abnormal. //. lladula. Mr. 

 Bloxam did not regard the form which occurs in Dovedale and in 

 other places in this neighbourhood as typical Badula, but rather as 

 R. melano.vi/lon Miill. ; Prof. Babington named it Rculula. — R. pal- 

 lidus Weihe seems to occur equally on limestone and gritstone, and 

 ascends considerably higher than li. discolor. — //. dronetorum, var. 

 intensus, Warren. Occurs in the hedges between Parwich and 

 Alsop-en-le-dale ; verified by Bloxam. A slender form with remark- 

 ably narrow leaves belonging to the dumetorwii group occurs in 

 Dovedale, near the rock called " Pickering Tors." Well-marked R. 

 ccesius, var. pseudo-idceiis, occurs in one of the limestone woods of the 

 Via Gellia, called Griff Wood ; also by the roadside near Hipley 

 Eock, between Tissington and the High Peak Eailway. 



Rosa micrantha has not, I think, been recorded for Derbyshire. 

 It occurs a mile or two from Ashbourne, on the Derby Eoad. — 

 li. cfcsia occurs sparingly in Dovedale, but, growing in shade, is 

 easily overlooked when out of flower. 



(To be continued.) 



