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will give the tourist an opportunity of seeing some delightful bits of 

 scenery, and he may, when tired of looking at rapiils, rocks, and hangers, 

 gather many a pretty and rare plant in the nooks and corners of that 

 charming dell, especially about Chee Torr. The walk down Uovedale is 

 almost as interesting and of far greater celebrity. It may thank honest 

 Izaak Walton and Cotton for that. It is also deservedly admired by the 

 botanist, and the Dove has what the Wye has not, viz. a good path, not 

 made for simplers but for anglers, but it serves both very well. There 

 are also some semi-alpine species growing not far from Buxton, on Kin- 

 derscoat, Axedge, etc. It is a fertile district, but it does not " produce 

 nearly all the indigenous plants of England." Some of our readers 

 could name a good hundred which do not grow in Derbyshire. 



5. The Editor would have much pleasure in answering the query sent 

 by his excellent Glasgow correspondent " W. G.," but he is at present 

 unable. If the work be published, it may not yet have reached London ; 

 or if it has been sent to the metropolitan bookseller, it has as yet reached 

 neither our hands nor eyes. 



6. Any of our learned readers can tell our estimable correspondent the 

 origin or root oi Feloria, but why it is applied to one abnormal form is not 

 so obvious. The original word means something vast, or hideous, or terrific ; 

 gigantic like the Cyclops, horrible and dreadful like Scylla and the serpent 

 Python, or terribly calamitous, like an earthquake. 



Probably the terra Peloria is applied to morphological ajjpearances on 

 the same principle as that which accounts for the derivation of lucus, a 

 grove, from lux, light, "because it does not shine ;" and which, in the new 

 botanical nomenclature calls the recently split Cardamine, C. sylvatica and 

 C. hirsuta, and the latter name may have been given because the plant is 

 not rouijli. Our correspondent's query is offered in his own terms, and it is 

 humbly submitted to the judgment of the learned : — 



Pelokia. 

 Can any of the readers of the ' Phytologist ' say why a very curious 

 abnormal form of Linaria vulgaris is called " Peloria "? I have searched 

 botanical works in vain for elucidation, and can only in Lempriere's Clas- 

 sical Dictionary find the word at all, where it states that it was a " fes- 

 tival observed by the Thessalians," etc. G. B. W. 



7. There may be a greater diversity of opinion about the carving out of 

 a new species of Lastrea from L. FiUx-nuis, than there can be about Peloria 

 and its applications and significations. The Editor does not think himself 

 qualified to answer the former query, and he is quite certain that he has 

 neither the ability nor inclination to attempt the other ticklish subject. 

 When the splitting process should be discontinued, in variable species, 

 is a question more easily raised than settled. If it be desirable to separate 

 into tico, why not into four, or eight, or sixteen, or even into an indefinite 

 number, or until we have as many species as individuals ? Eor we have not 

 any two specimens of humanity precisely similar, either in mental or phy- 

 sical organization ; no two objects in nature are exactly alike, not even 

 a pair of male ferns. 



But altliough unanimity on the limits of species be hopeless, our cor- 



