Dec., 1889. 
REVIEW. 
283 
They are given as follows in the Flora, and compared with the 
British list :— 
British .. 
Britain. 
532 
Derbyshire. 
532 
English .. 
409 
282 
Germanic 
127 
14 
Highland 
120 
9 
Scottish.. 
81 
30 
Atlantic.. 
70 
3 
Intermediate .. 
37 
16 
Local 
49 
3 
1,425 
889 
Here there must be some error, as it is not probable that Derbyshire 
contains all the British types. It is likely that 800 would more cor¬ 
rectly represent the total number of Derbyshire plants apart from 
aliens. 
The zones of temperature and altitude are given verbatim from 
Baker’s Lake District Flora. No notice is taken of the meteorology of 
the county. 
The bibliography of Derbyshire is appended, but it is by no means 
exhaustive. No reference is made of Parkinson, although a Derbyshire 
station is recorded in the Theatrum, nor of the Phytologia Britannica, 
notwithstanding Wm. How there includes “ Ononis var. albo neere 
Derby,” and of “ Jaceasive Herha Trinitatis elegantis jlore luteo amplissimo 
neere Edenhole in the Peeke, and about Buckstone,” nor of Merrett’s 
Pinax, in which the two latter records are quoted. The list of recent 
workers appears more complete, and contains valued names, such as 
Bloxam, Churchill, Babington, J. G. Baker, W. H. Purchas, W. R. 
Linton, &c. 
The list of Derbyshire plants' then] follows, the nomenclature 
employed being that used by Mr. J. G. Baker in the Lake District 
Flora, but it would have been preferable to follow, at any rate, the 
sequence of the London Catalogue, based as that is on Bentliam’s and 
Hooker’s Genera Plantarum. Our nomenclature, it is true, is at 
present by no means fixed, and pending the issue of some authoritative 
work the adoption in its entirety of the names used in the London 
Catalogue is a matter for consideration. At any rate, important works 
such as the Floras of South-West Yorkshire, Hereford, and Suffolk have 
kept on the old lines, which, incorrect as they doubtless are in many 
cases, have at least the doubtful merit of custom to account for their 
retention. There can be no use, however, in the perpetuation of such 
errors as Galium cmciatum, Linn., Trifolium ochroleucum, L., Bryonia 
(lioica , Linn., Alims glutinosa, L., llumex Hydrolapathum , Huds., &c. 
These should read Galium Cruciata, Scop., Alnus glutinosa , Gaertn., 
Bryonia dioica, Jacq., Trifolium ochroleucon, Huds., Rumex Hydro- 
lapatheum. Huds. 
