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THE BOTANY OF BIDDULPH. 
June, 1892. 
Bibliography.— “ The Natural History of the County of 
Stafford” by the late Mr. Garner, a book of which it is impossible 
to speak too highly, contains a good list of the plants in this 
county, in which several plants growing at Biddulph are 
mentioned. This and my other two districts Mr. Garner was 
unable to examine thoroughly, as in his botanical days there 
were no railroads running through them ; and his journeys, 
as he more than once told me, had to be performed either 
by gig, or by walking. The County Histories which he 
consulted, and the records in which he incorporated in his 
book, are as follows :—Shaw’s “Antiquities of Staffordshire,” 
2 vols., 1798-1801 ; Pitt’s “ Topographical History of Staf¬ 
fordshire,” 1817. 
If the botany of the whole county were to be given, of 
course, all the old writers, such as Plot and Ray, and the 
more modern ones, such as Watson (“ New Botanists’ Guide”) 
and the “ Natural History of Tutbury,” would have to be 
referred to. But since I do not find any record referring to 
this part of Staffordshire, quoted from any other than the 
two mentioned above, I do not think it necessary to say more 
upon this point. At the end of the list of plants seen by me 
will be found another list—that of plants having a higher 
census number than 100 not seen by me, in which those 
plants are included which, there is every reason to believe, 
have become extinct. 
The specimens of the plants mentioned in this list will be 
handed to the British Museum. 
New county records are marked thus :—N.C.R. 
Anemone nemorosa, L. 
Ranunculus peltatus, Schrank. II. Knypersley Pools, &c. 
III. Rudyerd Reservoir. N.C.R. 
R. Lenormandi, F. Schultz. II. Knypersley Park. 
R. hederaeeus, L. I. Overton. III. Horton. 
R. Flammula, l., aeris, l., repens, l., bulbosus, L., Ficaria, l. 
Caltha palustris, L. 
[HellebOPUS Vinidis, L. Grounds of Knypersley Hall; the remains 
of former cultivation.] Biddulph Castle, Garner. Not to be 
found. 
rEpimedium alpinum, L. 
^Nuphar luteum, Sm. 
Knypersley Hall, with the above.] 
Papaver dubium, Sm. III. Rudyerd Railway Station ; a garden 
weed. 
Chelidonium majus, L. II. Near Knypersley Hall. 
Corydalis elavieulata, DC. I. Near Biddulph Mill. III. East 
side of Rudyerd Reservoir, on gritstone rocks. 
Nasturtium officinale, B. Br. I. Near Biddulph Forge. 
