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Callitriche vema. In the Eiver Bradford, at Youlgrave. See 

 B. E. C. Report for 1876, p. 18. — C. pUttycurpa is the commoner 

 plant in this neighbourhood. 



Fdht's alpinnm. Plentiful in several parts of Dovedale ; strictly 

 dioecious. The frequency with which this occurs in the old cottage 

 gardens, together with the fact that some of the Dovedale localities 

 where it occurs most plentifully are near some of these old cottage 

 gardens, made me for some time to question its claims to be 

 considered native here ; but farther search has shown me colonies 

 of strong old bushes of both sexes in nooks and clefts where there 

 is little suspicion of human agency. In Staffordshire it occurs in 

 the neighbouring valley of the Manifold (limestone), near Wetton 

 Mill. I haue always been puzzled to account for the frequency of 

 this plant in old cottage gardens. Its fruit is worthless, and even 

 the stamiuate plant, which is much more showy than the pistillate, 

 is hardly so much so as to make it valued as an ornamental shrub, 

 In Herefordshire, where the plant is sometimes seen in hedges, 

 I only observed the pistillate form. 



Saxifrarja granulata is quite a feature in the pastures in the early 

 summer. 



Chri/susjilcnium alternifolium. ' Banks of the Dove, in one or two 

 spots, but rather scarce ; also on the banks of a brook between 

 Ashbourne and Fenny Bentley. 



Parnassia. Dovedale and some of the tributary valleys, but not 

 in the abundance in which it occurs near Buxton. 



Seclum acre so abounds on some of the stony hillsides of Dovedale 

 that in early summer they are perfectly yellow with it. 



Sanicula curopcm. Scarce in the district, but it occurs in Biggin 

 Dale, a tributary of the valley of the Dove. 



Pimpinella magna is more common than P. Saxifrarja in these 

 parts. 



Torilis infcsta is recorded from Dovedale in Sir 0. Moseley's 

 Nat. Hist, of Tutbury. I have not myself met with it. 



Conium maculatum. Banks of the brook near the Callow, Ash- 

 bourne, in plenty, 1884. 



Cardmis hcterophyUus Linn. Dovedale and Beresford Dale. 



Centa7irea Scabiosa. With white flowers at Brassington Rocks. 



Artemisia vuJijaris is very scarce on the limestone, and is wholly 

 absent from Dovedale and its immediate neighbourhood. It occurs 

 on the New Red Sandstone E. of Ashbourne. 



Senecio sylvaticns, which entirely avoids the limestone, occurs on 

 the coarse millstone grit about Birchover and Stanton, notably at 

 the curious rocks called Robin Hood's Stride. — S. erucifolius. The 

 spot where Mr. Baker noticed this, near the Peveril Inn, is the only 

 station I know of for many miles around. 



Chrysanthemum Leucantliemum affects the crevices of the limestone 

 rocks, as well as being frequent in grassy places. 



The absence of Leant udon hirius is remarkable. It was only 

 after special search that I found it on one of the limestone slopes 

 on the Staffordshire side of the Dove Valley. On the Derbyshire 

 side I have not yet been able to meet with it. 



