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• Introduction
• Jeremy Bentham and James Mill
• Rationale of Judicial Evidence
• Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind
• Botanical Writings 1840–61
• Calendar of Odours April 1840
• Rare Plants In West Surrey June 1841
• Isatis Tinctoria June 1841
• Notes On Plants Growing In the Neighbourhood of Guildford, Surrey August 1841
• Cnicus Forsteri September 1841
• Additional Guildford Stations September 1841
• Polygonum Dumetorum November 1841
• Rarer Plants of the Isle of Wight November 1841
• Corrections and Additions In Mr. Mill’s List of Plants In the Isle of Wight January 1842
• The Phytologist; a Botanical Magazine December 1843
• Notes On the Species of Oenanthe February 1845
• Correction of an Error In the “notes On the Species of Oenanthe” April 1845
• Observations On Isatis Tinctoria and Other Plants May 1856
• Plants Growing Wild In the District of Luxford’s Reigate Florajune 1856
• Note On West Surrey Plants July 1856
• Reigate Plants October 1856
• Plants Growing On and Near Blackheath April 1857
• Late (early?) Flowering Plants: Plants In Flower In the District of Eltham and Chiselhurst, In November, 1857 January 1858
• Hutchinsia Petraea May 1858
• Leucojum Aestivum July 1858
• Clifton Plants July 1858
• Plants On Sherborn Sands, Blackheath, and Other Stations September 1858
• Some Derbyshire Plants September 1858
• Linaria Purpurea September 1858
• Faversham Plants October 1858
• Lepidium Ruderale April 1859
• Wallflower Growing On the Living Rock May 1860
• Spring Flowers of the South of Europe: Remarks On Some of the Spring Flowers of the South of Europe, and On Their Representatives In the British Isles October 1860
• Botany of Spain. a Few Days’ Botanizing In the North-eastern Provinces of Spain, In April and May, 1860 August 1861-february 1862
• Verbascum Thapsiforme October 1862
• Medical Reviews 1834, 1842
• Dr. King’s Lecture On the Study of Anatomy November 1834
• Carpenter’s Physiology January 1842
• Appendices
• Appendix A: Wills and Deed of Gift 1853-72
• Appendix B: the Vixen, and Circassia April 1837
• Appendix C: The Spanish Question July 1837
• Appendix D: Questions Before the Select Committee On Metropolitan Local Government 1867
• Appendix E: Mill At the Political Economy Club 1840-65
• Appendix F: Textual Emendations
• Appendix G: Index of Persons, and Works Cited, With Variants and Notes

Some Derbyshire Plants

SEPTEMBER 1858

. . . i have been out for a few days, with some botanical results. You have probably found, like myself, that when one goes to a neighbourhood known for rare plants one seldom finds those one seeks for: one finds others which one did not expect. It has not so happened with me this time, for during a day at Matlock I found one of the two special rarities of that place, Thlaspi virens, Bab. (alpestre, Sm.), still not entirely out of flower; and I have plenty for you as well as myself, if you would like to have any. The other plants worth mentioning which I found at Matlock were Arenaria verna, still spangling the hillsides with its blossoms; Cardamine impatiens, plentiful; Convallaria majalis, Arabis hirsuta, Campanulalatifolia, and Geranium pratense, all in abundance: its usual northern substitute, G. sylvaticum, I did not see.

Other plants in Derbyshire:—Silene nutans, Dovedale and Wyedale; Vaccinium Vitis-idaea, Chatsworth; Rosa villosa and R. tomentosa, Monsal Dale and its vicinity; Myrrhus odorata, Millersdale; also, I believe, between Castleton and Hathersage; Cochlearia officinalis and Thalictrum flexuosum (or rather, perhaps, T. calcareum), abundant on rocks above Castleton; Viola lutea (which I prefer calling, with De Candolle, V. sudetica,¹ as it has a blue variety), on all mountains and hills near Castleton; the blue variety occasionally; Polypodium calcareum, in clefts of rocks between Bakewell and Buxton; Cystopteris fragilis, in similar situations there, and near Castleton; Carduus heterophyllus, plentiful in wet ground by the river Wye, near Cowdale turnpike, two miles from Buxton, on the Bakewell Road; Polemonium coeruleum, on rocks by the same road, one mile from Buxton, but so difficult to be got at that I only secured one specimen. . . .—July 30th, 1858. I will send Silene along with Thalictrum. My specimens are not from Dovedale, though I saw the plant there, but from Wyedale, about a mile above Ashford, near Bakewell. The leaf of the Viola from New Brighton is very much like that of some specimens I brought from Italy under the name of V. montana or Ruppii, both of which are considered forms of canina. . . .—Among the Derbyshire plants which I saw I omitted Allium vineale, near Matlock (at the very top of the High Tor), and Saxifraga hypnoides, in various places, but always much past flower, even in places where Cardamine pratensis was still flowering.

[1 ]Candolle, Prodromus, Vol. I, p. 302.