538 DOVEDALE. [September, 



Acinos, Clairv. (both of which are found in great plenty on the 

 heights of Cromwell^s Low) ; also Geranium^ pusillum, L., Vicia 

 lathyroides, \j., Linaria vulgaris, Mill., Glyceria rig'ida, Sm., 

 and Festuca ovina, L. Ham Tops and Hurt's Wood are covered 

 with plantations, and being enclosed with a dry stone wall and 

 locked iron gates^ seemed to be forbidden ground. I ventured 

 within the enclosure notwithstanding, but found, on leaving the 

 carriage-drive, that the ground was both difficult and unproduc- 

 tive, so made the best of my way across the river, carrying little 

 with me in the way of spoil except a frond or two of Polystichum 

 aculeatum, Eoth. 



On the Derbyshire side, Thorp Cloud offered me no reward 

 for my toil in scaling its summit, save a bracing, healthy breeze, 

 and a splendid and extensive prospect. The hmestone rocks at 

 its north-western base proved tolerably productive. Besides 

 several Mosses and Lichens, there was, on occasion of my first 

 visit, an abundant supply of Silene nutans, L., but getting into 

 seed. In June, 1856, the plants were not sufficiently forward to 

 obtain specimens for the herbarium. Saxifraga hypnoicles, L., 

 was abundant June 18, 185.6, but the flowers had nearly all 

 fallen. In this part of the dale Cystopteris fragilis, Bernh., was 

 most abundant, a few of the plants approaching the C. angustata, 

 Sm., Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum, L., and, growing on the native 

 rock, A. Rut a-mur aria, L. I was sufficiently fortunate to find — 

 so far as I can make out — a new locality for Folypodium calcareum, 

 Sm., of which I found no more than one small plant. AX the 

 foot of the north-eastern slope there is a small rivulet dividing 

 Thorp Cloud from Sharplow. Close to this I gathered Sagina 

 nodosa, Mey., and Triglochin palustre, L. At the foot of Sharplow 

 Allium vineale, L., is found in great plenty, but on occasion of 

 my last visit it was in too juvenile a state to secure more than 

 two good specimens. On the slope above, Orchis Morio, L., and 

 O. mascula, L., are tolerably frequent^ and, if my memory does 

 not deceive me, Habenaria bifolia, Br. Polygala vidgaris, Br., 

 and Anthyllis Vulneraria, L., with other still more common plants, 

 were in rich profusion about the same spot. Turning up the dale, 

 at the foot of Cromweirs Low, growing either on or among the 

 limestone rocks, I observed Rhamnus Frangula, L., Hippocrepis 

 comosa, L., Pyrus Aria, Sm., and Cornus sanguinea, L. There 

 were also some Hieracia that had found a secure home for them- 



