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DIGITALIS Z. 
D. purpurea Ll. Foxglove. 
Native. bB. Bushy banks, heaths, woods, roadsides. Common except on 
limestone. B. June-Sept. 
First record, Pilkington, 1789. 
“Tt marks with Pteris the upper boundary of the agrarian region,’ C.D. 
“Up to 500 yards on Axe Edge,” Baker, J.B. ‘The hills of limestone and 
gritstone in this neighbourhood [Wirksworth] are of nearly the same altitude, 
and dip into each other in a most singular manner.... Now the Digitalis 
grows so abundantly on the gritstone, from the summit of the hills to the 
bottom, that I have for years been in the habit of noticing that the different 
substrata may be determined by the presence or absence of this plant; for I have 
never seen a single plant on limestone, even where it has grown abundantly, 
within a few hundred yards, upon the sandstone,” W. Cambell in Loudon’s Mag. 
Nat. Hist. Sep. 26, 1838. In the white flowered plant, which occurs here and 
there with the type, the albinoism extends to the leaf-bases and petioles, which 
are devoid of any reddish purple hue. 
VERONICA lL. 
V. hedereefolia LZ. IJvy-leaved Speedwell. 
Native. B. Arable land, hedges, waste ground, gardens. Common. A. 
March-Aug. 
First record, Pilkington, 1789. 
General throughout the County. ‘“‘As a garden weed at Cressbrook, about 
250 yards,” Rogers, J.B. 
V. polita Fr. Grey Speedwell. 
Native. BE. Cultivated ground. Common. A. Feb.-Oct. 
First record, Whittaker, Phyt. 1847. 
In all the districts ; upwards of 300 yards at Buxton. 
V. agrestis L. Green Speedwell, 
Native. B. Cultivated ground, waste places. Common. A. Feb.-Oct. 
First record, Pilkington, 1789. 
Generally distributed. ‘“‘A weed up to 250 yards” [Wye Valley], Baker, 
J.B. ‘ Ascends to 300 yards” [Matlock], B. é N., J.B. 
V. Tournefortii @ Gmel. V. persica Poir. V. Buxbaumii Ten. 
Denizen or Colonist. E. Arable land, waysides. Common. A. Feb.-Noy. 
First record, Painter, J.B., 1881. 
Generally distributed, though scarcely plentiful in any district. Seen in 
several places up to 3800 yards [Matlock], B. ¢& N., J.B. 
