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188 A LIST OF PLANTS OBSERVED IN ss. DERBYSHIRE. 
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maturity, its vegetative organs may have preserved it from decima- 
tion or extinction. It is not a little remarkable that. of the two 
From what I know of the habits of reptans it would seem to be 
partial to the edges of lakes, as in Loch Leven and Ullswater, in 
I shall not soon forget the first occasion (in July, 1865) upon which 
I saw the plant in a living state on the sandy margin of Hiterdals 
Vand, in southern N orway ; the sides of the lake were covered with 
a carpet of this little plant growing in felted masses over many 
acres, and fruiting most abundantly. 
A LIST OF PLANTS OBSERVED IN §S. DERBYSHIRE. 
By tue Rev. W. H. Purcuas, L. Ta. 
(Coneluded from p. 107.) 
Pieris hieracioides L. ‘Near the Ashby Lodge,” Bloxam! 
Rather scarce in the district.* 
P. echivides L. (Helminthia) used to occur by the roadside between 
Swarkestone and Chellastone, a little way beyond the N. boundary of the 
district to which these records apply. 
