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Typha latifolia L. (C) Apperknowle. 



Triglochin imhcstre L. (G) Cathole. 



Eriopliorum vagijiatwn L. (G) Stanage. 



Agrostis alba L. f var. major Gaud. ("C) Nether Loads. — 

 Descliampsia ccBSpitosa Beauv. t var. longiaristata (Parn.). ("'"G) 

 Hare wood Grange. — Brachy podium pimiatum Beauv. f var. corni- 

 cidatum (Lam.). ("P) Ault Hucknall, Elmton, Shirebrook. — Agro- 

 pyron repens Beauv. var. Leersianum Gray. ( P) Stoney Houghton ; 

 (L) Matlock. 



Asplenium Trichomanes L. (G) Holloway. — A. Buta-muraria L. 

 (C) Old Brampton. — Athyrium Filix-fcemina Eoth. f var. erectum 

 Syme. ('G) Upper Loads. — Var. incisum ("C) Nether Loads. — 

 Ophiogloss^im vulgatum L. (C) Woodthorpe. 



Equisetum sylvaticum L. (C) Nether Loads. — Lycopodium 

 clavatum L. ('''C) Wingerworth Bole Hill ; discovered by Mr. W. 

 Waddington, who took one of us to see it growing. The old 

 record from Bread sail Moor is given under C in the " Flora," but 

 Breadsall is not on the Coal Measures. 



In the above list L stands for Carboniferous Limestone, Y for 

 Yoredales, G for Millstone Grit, C for Coal Measures and P for 

 Permean ; new County records are marked with a dagger and 

 records new for their particular division are starred. 



WILLIAM PEETE AND HIS HEEBAKIUM. 



By Spencer H. Bickham, F.L.S. 



A pew years ago I bought a Herbarium of British plants of sin- 

 gular interest as it contains a specimen (or in the case of some of the 

 rarer species two or three specimens) of most of the species known 

 to British botanists during the years 1807-1844, when the collection 

 was formed. There was no list : only a book recording the dona- 

 tions of most of the best known British botanists of the day. With 

 considerable difficulty I have discovered that the collection was 

 formed by William Peete (1771-1848), F.L.S. , 1794, a surgeon at 

 Dartford from 1795 to 1833, w^hen he retired to Keston Heath 

 and thence to Bromley, where he died on February 4th, 1848, in 

 his seventy-seventh year. His herbarium was enriched by con- 

 tributions from more than forty botanists, among whom were Sir 

 W. J. Hooker, C. C. Babington, G. S. Gibson, G. E. Smith, Joseph 

 Woods, James Backhouse, W. Borrer, David Don, W. Wilson, 

 J. S. Henslow, James McNab, and W. Pamplin : with the last 

 three he seems to have been on terms of intimacy. His own 

 gatherings w^ere apparently almost entirely confined to the neigh- 

 bourhoods in which he lived, and it seems strange that he was 

 able to enlist the sympathies of so many botanists when he had 

 so little to offer in exchange, unless perhaps his knowledge of the 

 localities for Orchis hircina and 0. Simia (see Phyt. i, p. 587) 

 helped him. I possess a fine specimen of 0. hircina gathered by 



