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Watson’s Guide, we find Epipactis grandiflora [Cephalanthera grandi- 
flora ] recorded for Newton Wood, on the authority of B. G., which, 
teste Mr. Painter, was derived from Pilkington. So, too, with 
Gentiana Pneumonanthe , where Egginton Heath is given on the same 
authority; and so, too, with Chlora perfoliata , Pleasy Park and 
Whitewell being given as localities. Under Mentha Pulegiuni, we are 
told it is queried in Top. Bot., whereas in the Bot. Guide it is recorded 
from Pinxton, Ockbrooke, Radbourne, and Langley Commons. 
Even under such a typical Derbyshire plant as Polemoniam, some 
of the records in the New Botanists’ Guide do not appear to be given. 
Such are Lover’s Leap, near Buxton; rocks in the Winnets, near 
Castleton; Alfreton Brook, Bakewell Meadow. These are rather 
serious omissions, as the chance of verifying the doubtful records (if 
they are such) is to give in what is described as a County Flora all 
the available information respecting them. 
These remarks must not prejudice the reader against the book. 
Such is not by any means the intention of the writer, for, so far as it 
goes, the Flora is a correct summary of the more recently published 
records of Derbyshire plants, placed before us in a compact, well- 
printed form. We only regret that having spent, as Mr. Painter must 
have done, so much labour (how much only those who have attempted 
a similar work can rightly appreciate) upon the book, he had not 
delayed its publication a little longer, so a3 to have made it more 
thoroughly representative of the interesting county it deals with. 
This, we hope, he will yet find time to do. Till then British 
botanists must thank him for temporarily filling up the gap in our list 
of County Floras. 
The few following records of Derbyshire plants are taken from 
MSS. in a copy of the Dillenian Ray, in Library of Oxford Botanical 
Garden :— 
Draba muralis , Castleton, Matlock, Mr. Yalden. 
Cochlearia anglica, Hill, near Castleton, Mr. Yalden. 
Thlaspi alpestre, Matlock, Mr. [Sir Jos.] Banks. 
Cardamine impatiens, Matlock, Mr. Banks and Sir. Jno. Cullum ; 
Middleton Dale, Duchess of Portland. 
C. bellidifolia, near the edge of Derbyshire, Mr. Bolton. 
Polemonium coeruleum, near Castleton, Mr. Banks; Alfreton 
Brook, Dr. Oaks. 
G. C. Druce. 
BIRMINGHAM NATURAL HISTORY AND MICROSCOPICAL 
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