30 BOTANICAL WALKS ROUND DERBY, 



Other plants which grew there many years ago — the Madder-wort 

 ( Utricularia vulgaris, Lin. \ and the Golden Dock {Rumex 

 maritima, Lin.) ; though I did find there the Great Water 

 Dock {R. Hydrolapatheum, Huds). 



Such are some of the principal plants which grow in the 

 neighbourhood of Derby, the list of which might be greatly 

 extended ; but I trust that the mention of these may be sufficient 

 to stimulate some of the members of this Society who have 

 hitherto shrunk from botanical pursuits to hesitate no longer, but 

 rather to join the ranks of those who delight in studying the 

 " flowers of the field," which manifest the wisdom, and love and 

 care of Him who has created them for the well-being and 

 happiness of man, and who thus reveals Himself in the Book of 

 Nature as an all-wise and all-powerful Creator and Preserver, 



