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Botanical i^otcs on a SSaalfe from Buxton to 

 IHiTlet's IDalr in gtinc, 1890. 



By Rev. W. H. Painter. 





HE walk to be now described was really one from 

 Miller's Dale to Buxton, but for the purpose of this 

 paper it is reversed, as it is far easier for a pedestrian 

 to desce7id from the last mentioned place to the 

 former, tlian for him to ascend from the one to the other. 



The reason for my walking to Buxton from Miller's Dale was 

 this : I particularly wished to examine a willow growing in this 

 dale, Salix utidulata {Ehrkardt), and to obtain specimens of its 

 fertile capsules ; therefore I took a train down to Miller's Dale 

 station, intending to visit this tree, and then, if there was not 

 time for doing anything more, to return to Buxton to calch the 

 train for Congleton, which left at 5.10 p.m. But as I found 

 when I had returned to the railway station that I had sufficient 

 time to walk to Buxton (two and a half hours), I determined to 

 do this, and the result of this rapid walk will now be placed before 

 you in the reverse order, as I have already stated. 



After leaving Buxton by Spring Gardens and the Bakewell 

 Road, the pedestrian keeps by the side of the river Wye down 

 Ashwood Dale. This dale, from its commencement until the 

 road winds round Topley Pike, and Blackwell Dale commences, 

 is full of botanical treasures. On the occasion of this visit of 

 mine to it, I found three plants which I liad not before seen 

 there, though I had frequently botanized in it, all of which occur 



