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A LIST OF PLANTS OBSERVED IN S. DERBYSHIRE. 
By rue Rev. W. H. Purcuas, L. Ta. 
IT nave thought that it may be well to put on record a list of the 
plants which I observed and noted down during the few years 
(1858-1865) which I passed in the South of Derbyshire; for 
although so much has been written on Derbyshire Botany, 1 do 
not think that an approximately complete list of plants has _— 
published for the restricted area — came under my own 
observation ; and if the eounty should be hereafter canbe aah 
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— division or district. 
and east of the River Trent the County of Derby runs 
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and it is only to the northern half of this cong that the present 
records apply; a line from Burton-on-Tre o Smisby, near 
Ashby-de-la-Zouch, will give the southern limit ae my explorations, 
as the Trent does the northern, and even of this sare tract the 
outlying portions will necessarily have been less fully examined 
than those immediately around Calke and Tickenhall. 
The geology of this part is varied and sdpeale, but I must 
leave any description of it to those who know more about the 
matter than I do. I will only observe that the most noticeable 
feature in respect of dea: relations between plants to si subjacent 
rocks is the very marked absence of limestone plants from the 
carboniferous limestone of Tickenhall and Calke. My at friend 
the Rev. W. H. Coleman, ——_ me as acute and accurate a geologist 
as Ww otanist, offer in explanation the great 
a ee nes chy) na a very small penn only of the 
Tickenhall limestone was originally exposed at the surface, the 
greater eet of the rock having been covered by more recent 
len These deposits had to be removed in order to get at the 
limestone, and were thrown up into the large mounds and hillocks 
which oecupy the lower end of ee Tickenhall Lime-works. 
which seems to have ended in the year 1833, must have explored 
the neighbourhood most Te auils. Mr. Bloxam communicated the 
results of his observations to the late Mr. H. C. Watson, by whom 
the rarer plants were published in his ‘New Botanist’s Guide’ 
(1835), and more especially in the Supplement. On leaving Calke 
Abbey, Mr. Bloxam placed in the hands of the then Lady Cas we a 
collection containing a specimen of almost every species observed 
by him. This collection was carefully preserved by Lady Crewe, 
and is now in the possession of her grandson, Mr. Hugo H. Crewe 
by whose kindness I have been ss to go carefully rcoeh it, pak 
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