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NOTES ON THE FLORA OF MATLOCK. 
By J. G. Baxer, F.R.S., anp rue Rev. W. W. Newsoutp, M.A., F.L,§. 
Tue present paper contains a series of notes on the flora of 
Matlock, brought together for the purpose of comparison with the 
similar set of notes on the flora of Buxton, printed in this Journal 
for January last, and the supplementary records by Mr. W. West 
and the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers. The botany of Derbyshire is of 
great general interest, because the position and physical configura- 
tion of the county are such that it shows better than any other 
blending of the flora of the North of England into that of the 
Midland Counties. It is the county that shows’ best the widest 
range we get in any one county of Watson’s agrarian region. 
Perhaps no other county is better divided out, apart from climate, 
into well-marked physical divisions. In Derbyshire there are, as 
Mr. Painter has already explained, three of these :—1st, the low 
country apart from the hills; 2nd, the limestone hills and valleys; 
8rd, the ridges and slopes of millstone grit. 
above sea-level ; so that, whilst half the area round Buxton falls 
list is the result of a fortnight’s search, at the end of 
August and the beginning of September, so that no doubt many 
lateness of the seas spent a single da Dovedale, an 
ade also a catalogue there, confining ourselves to the Derbyshire 
side of the stream e cliffs there are just like those of Matlock, 
but the general character of the flora is a shade less montane. 
The species noted there are distinguished by a D after the name. 
, Lhalictrum. None seen. The Castleton plant reported as 
flecuosum will likely prove to be really a montanum form. 
Ranunculus aquatilis. Rare about Matlock. Abundance es _ 
penicillatus in the stream in Dovedale. — R. Flammula, acris, and 
