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VEGETATION OF THE PEAK DISTRICT 



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The Peak District has been well studied from the floristic 

 standpoint, for each county represented, with the exception of 

 the small portion which occurs in south Lancashire, has its 

 published local flora. Those of west Yorkshire (Lees, 1888), 

 Cheshire (de Tabley, 1899), and Derbyshire (Linton, 1903) may 

 be taken as representative, in various ways, of the best of the 

 British county and local floras; and those by Painter (1889) 

 and Bagnall (1901) provide useful lists of species. The flora 

 by Crump and Crossland (1904), although it deals with an area 

 a little to the north of this district, may be taken as illustrating; 

 the flora of the non-calcareous soils of the southern Pennines 

 generally; and it shares, along with Wheldon and Wilson's 

 flora (1907), the honour of being one of the very few British 

 floras which deal at some length with the occurrence and 

 distribution of plant associations. 



Whilst, however, the flora of the Peak District has been 

 dealt with by several authors, its vegetation has not been 

 described. The distinction between flora and vegetation was 



