BOTANICAL NOTES FROM BUXTON TO MILLER'S DALE. 37 



large rosulate leaves, which are always purplish on the under 

 side. 



Lower down the dale I came upon Myosotis sylvatica [Hoff.], 

 one of the handsomest of the Forget-me-Nots, a plant which 

 grows also in Ashwood Dale, where I found it in the course of 

 this walk. The only place where I had previously seen it growing 

 in this county was near Ashford-in-the-Water, on the high road 

 from Buxton. This plant may be readily distinguished from the 

 other species of Myosotis by its long-stalked root-leaves, and by 

 the spreading hooked bristles of the calyx. 



Near this plant another was growing which is often mistaken 

 for it, Myosotis arvensis {Ifoffm), var, umbrosa [Bab.). This variety 

 of the Field Scorpion Grass has larger flowers than the type, and 

 is altogether a taller and more robust plant, while it differs from 

 the plant before-mentioned in having halt-cleft segments of the 

 calyx, and oblong acute leaves, M. sylvatica having a calyx which 

 is three-fourths cleft, and oblong-lanceolate leaves. This variety 

 is of frequent occurrence in the dales. 



Salix cinerea {Linn.) also grows here, another well-marked plant 

 or shrub, and which is of frequent occurrence throughout the 

 county. The leaves of the specimen exhibited belong to the male 

 plant, as there were no catkins visible upon the bush from which 

 it was cut. 



Several grasses occur in this dale, but I only stopped to gather 

 specimens of the one now show^i — Festuca diiriuscula {Lin.). 



Through taking a wrong turn in the path I came upon a fine 

 plant of Polystichum lobatum {Prest.), one ot the Shield Ferns, 

 which used to be called Polystichum aculeatuvi {Roth.), var. lobatum 

 {Smith). This is the usual form of P. aculeatum in the woods and 

 lanes of Derbyshire, differing from the type by its narrow fronds, 

 and from P. angulare (Prest.) by its pinnules not being stalked 

 but sessile, and at an acute angle with the common stalk of the 

 pinnae. 



Now we enter Chee r)ale and gaze upon Chee Tor. Here 

 Getan intermedium {Ehrh.) grows luxuriantly, as well as Veronica 

 mofitana {Linn.), a plant which I had overlooked in my previous 



