THE RARER PLANTS OF 
THE WALKERINGHAM NEIGHBOURHOOD 
IN 
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, LINCOLNSHIRE, AND YORKSHIRE, 
Tue Late Rev. J. K. MILLER. 
EpItTeD, witH Notes, sy THE Rev. E, ADRIAN WOODRUFFE-PEACOCK, 
Vicar of Cadney; General and Botanical Secretary, Linco. ge titi Naturalists’ Union; 
Curator of the Taacetushive County Herbarii 
WHILE seeking for records and specimens left by former lovers 
of Lincolnshire plants for my Locality Register and the County 
Herbarium, I came across the following valuable little manuscript 
left by the late Rev. Joseph Kirkman Miller. It is entitled Mora 
Walkeringhamiensis, and has been kindly lent to me by the son 
of the writer—Mr. George Miller, of Holcombe, Bath—with full 
permission to publish its contents if I thought it expedient to do so. 
The author was Vicar of Walkeringham, Notts, from 1819 to 1855. 
He took his degree at Cambridge in 1808, being 7th Wrangler, and 
was for some time Fellow of Trinity. An socutate, patient, ‘and 
painstaking botanist, as h d (? 
everything he was not absolutely sure of, until he was quite satished 
as to its specific character, and finally left some entries as at first 
written with the sign of doubt still standing— Mr. Miller was 
apparently most careless of the specimens which he gathered, giving 
many of them away, when verified, to his friends in the neighbour- 
hood, who seem to have formed a kind of botanical club. Those 
that have passed through my hands are without a single exception 
correctly named, though some difficult and rare species are 
questioned ; and I have followed so often in his footsteps whilst 
botanizing in this county that I cannot possibly doubt his accuracy 
when his records are new or unexpecte 
Mr. Miller’s only contribution to botanical literature, that I am 
aware of, is the first part of the list of rare plants published in 
the late Sir C. J. H. Anderson’s Short Guide to the County of Lincoin, 
Gainsborough, 1847. The first and final draft of this list are still 
along with his other botanical papers. To the catalogue of plants 
found in the Hora Walkeringhamiensts is added a record, contained 
in a separate manuscript, of thirty other species observed on 
a visit to Thorne Moor or Waste on July 15th, 1840. I feel I have 
authority to include them all, as in many instances Mr. Miller has 
himself done so. ‘The final catalogue thus obtained i is here printed 
May 1895. 
