482 NOTES ON THE FLORA OF THE HIGH PEAK. [July, 



botanical pedestrian trip. I refer to the meeting, on the side 

 of the rockj with another botanist, and exchanging specimens 

 and addi'esses with him. 



On this hill there is abundance of Chrysosplenium oppositifo- 

 lium, Lychnis diurna, several species of Saxifraga, and the rare 

 Valerianella carinata. The limestone walls which skii't the road 

 from this place to Chapel-le-Frith are richly decked with Saxi- 

 fraga tridactylites and Draba muralis. Ascending another hill 

 toward the entrance of the Blue John mine, and close to Mam 

 Tor, we gathered Cochlearia officinalis, Arabis stricta {?), Adoxa 

 moschatellina and Primula veris. In a small stream near the 

 summit Chrysosplenium oppositifolium is plentiful, with several 

 patches here and there of the rarer C. alternifoUum and Veronica 

 Beccabunga. By the way, that name always strikes upon my ear 

 with a grating sound : is it not a barbarous name for so pretty 

 a plant? Had I been at the elbow of the great Linnaeus when 

 he wrote it, I should humbly have suggested V. rivularis as a 

 more appropriate and certainly more euphonious name. 



Upon regaining the high-road to the south of Mam Tor, 

 the fields are brilliant with Viola canina and V. lutea, and in 

 the woods Geum rivale is abundant, whilst not a plant of G. 

 urbanum is to be seen. The ditches at the foot of the walls 

 are luxuriant with Veronica serpyllifolia, V. Beccabunga (in leaf 

 only), Equisetum limosum, Avith the variety named at p. 171 of 

 Irvine's ' British Plants ' E. fiuviatile, and on the drier portions 

 occasional patches of Asplenium Trichomanes. On the banks of 

 the stream, to the west of Chapel, we found a species of Pe- 

 tasites in seed, which, from specimens gathered near Hudders- 

 field, I take to be P. albus, Gsertn., mentioned in the supple- 

 ment to Baines's ' Flora of Yorkshire,' by IMr. P. Inchbold, of 

 Storthes Hall ; and at the next bend in the road Orchis mas- 

 cula was in full flower in a meadow on the left-hand. In con- 

 cluding this very imperfect sketch of the Flora of this district, 

 permit me to observe, that had the season been more advanced 

 and the weather more favourable, I doubt not that a much 

 richer collection would have awaited us, and I can confidently 

 recommend the district to any ardent student of our enchanting 

 science who is not afraid to make use of Nature's own convey- 

 ance, and "do it afoot." 



