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Vaccmium MyrtiUus usually avoids the limestone, especially 

 when close at the surface, but it appears with some other relics of 

 the old moorland vegetation on a part of Allsop Moor, near 

 Newhaven. It may be that the curious sandy deposit which is 

 found in various spots on that elevated tract may be there also, 

 and may have helped to supply a congenial peaty soil for heathland 

 plants. I hope to pay more attention to this point than I have done. 



Ligustnon ruh/are. Rocky limestone slopes of the Dove Valley, 

 from 600 to 1000 ft. 



Gentiana AiimreUa. On limestone in Dovedale ; and also on 

 grit elsewhere. — I have not seen G. campestris on this western side 

 of Derbyshire. 



PoJemonium ccernleum. Eocky banks in several parts of the Dove 

 Valley, although not in Dovedale proper. 



Yerbascwn niijrum, which a few years ago was plentiful at Alport, 

 near Youlgrave, has quite disappeared for the last two seasons. 



Scrophularia Balbisii is singularly absent from the valley of the 

 Dove and its immediate surroundings. I have noticed it in the 

 Via Gellia, as did Mr, Baker, but all search for it nearer home has 

 been in vain. A pale -flowered variety of S. nodosa in the Via 

 Gellia with the usual form. 



Linaria rnhjaris is, so far as my observation goes, confined to 

 the Staffordshire side of the Dove Valley, and to one spot only a 

 mile or two above Dovedale proper. 



Mentha are not plentiful. M. sylvestris is to be seen in Dove- 

 dale, but only in one spot, and in very small quantity. 



Calamintha Clinopodmm. Valley of the Dove, between Thorpe 

 and Mappleton. 



Stachys amhuiua. Between Derby and Mackworth ; a form 

 which comes rather nearer to 8. sylvcitica than does Mr. H. C. 

 Watson's Surrey plant or Dr. Boswell's Orkney plant in that the 

 leaves are more ovate, their serratures more convex-sided, and the 

 flowers smaller and darker. — 8. Betonica. Meadows between 

 Thorpe and Mappleton. 



Galeopsis versicolor. In plenty in a field near Youlgrave a few 

 seasons ago. 



Myosotis palnstris, which so abounds in various parts of the 

 valley of the Derbyshire Wye, is entirely absent from that of the 

 Dove. — M. sylvatica. Dovedale and Fenny Bentley ; much more 

 common, in fact, in this neighbourhood than M. arvcnsis, and 

 flowering several weeks earlier than it. — M. repcns. I feel pretty 

 sure that I gathered this in a wet place near Blackwall, Hulland, 

 some years since, but I cannot find a record. 



The Syiiiphytwii, so very abundant a few seasons ago by the side 

 of the stream between Grange Mill and the Lilies Inn, at the head 

 of the Via Gellia, has now greatly diminished in quantity. Speci- 

 mens of this plant have been sent to the Botanical Exchange Club 

 by both Mr. C. Bailey and myself. In the Botanical Exchange 

 Club Reports for 1877-8, p. 17, this plant is regarded by Dr. 

 Boswell as probably 8. jtenyrinuvi liedeb. In the other station near 

 Youlgrave (misprinted Yurlgrave) I saw but one patch of it. 



