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Botanical asaams fXoxuxn ScilJj). 



By the Rev. W. H. Painter. 



r|HE plants enumerated in the following pages were seen 

 by me in the various localities mentioned during 

 the years 1871-8, when I was living in Derby. They 

 are distinct in a great measure from those which 

 grow in the other parts of Derbyshire. This is owing to the 

 Geological Formations of those parts. 



In the Peak district, as is well known, there are the Carboniferous 

 or Mountain Limestone, and Millstone Grit. In the district between 

 Sheffield and Belper there are the Coal Measures, whilst the 

 remaining portion of the county rests upon the New Red Sand- 

 stone, with an outline of Mountain Limestone at Tickenhall, and 

 Coal Measures on the borders of Leicestershire. The difference 

 in altitude between the country north of Belper and this district 

 is also a factor in the difference of the Flora, which must not 

 be overlooked; for whilst the northern part of the county is 

 elevated and hilly, the southern portion is much lower, and 

 consists for the most part of a plain. Again, the land round 

 Derby, and especially to the south of that town, is highly 

 cultivated, and very much of it is arable. Hence, as might be 

 expected, a large number of plants are to be found here which 

 are usually found upon similar ground. 



In some of the cornfields round Derby, I met with the Field 

 Buttercup {Rarmnmlus arvensis, Lin.), or as it is called m 

 Buckinghamshire, " the Devil-on-both-sides," on account of its 

 prickly fruit. In the lanes near these fields the Wood Crow-foot 



