THE FLORA OF LIVERPOOL. 



Ord. XXV. ONAGRACE.E. Juss. 

 The Willow Herb Family, 



1. EPILOBIUM. Linn. Willow Herb. 

 Octand. Monogyn. L. 



1. E. HiRSUTUM. L. (Great hairy W.) July, August. 2^ 



Sides of ditches, f onds, &c., very frequent. 



2. E. PARviPLORUM. Schreb. (Small-flowered hairy W.) 



July, August. If 



In watery places, very common. 



3. E. MONTANUM. L. (Broad smooth-leaved W.) June, 



July, li 



Common on old walls, dry shady places, &c. 



4. E. PALUSTRE. L. (Narrow-leaved Marsh W.) July. V, 



Common in marshy and boggy places. Very abundant in 

 Bidston Marsh, near Southport, &c. Fomiby, — R. Tudor. 



" On the different species may be found the larvsD of Deilephela Elpenor, (Elephant 

 Haw M.,) and Oraphiphora C. nigrum, (the Setaceous Hebrew character)." 



2. (ENOTHERA. Linn. Evening Primrose. 



Octand. Monogyn. L. 



1. (E. BIENNIS. L. (Common E.) July — September. $ 



Abundant on the sand hills from Crosby to Southport. 

 Now also on the sand hUls at New Brighton, — T. Sansom. 

 Probably an outcast originally from a garden. It is 

 naturalized from Virginia. 



3. CIEC^EA. Linn. Enchanter^s Nightshade. 



Bland. Monogyn, L. 



1. C. Lutetian A. L. (Common E.) June — August. ii 



Very common in large woods, as at Croxteth, about the 

 " Old Hut," Hale, Eastham, and other places in Wirral. 

 Plentiful in a shaded ditch by the side of a footpath 

 leading from the Old Swan Glass Works to Oak Vale., — 

 W.H. 



2. C. alpina. L. (Alpine E.) July, August. V, 

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Plentiful in shady places on Billinge Hill, — W.S. Near 

 St. Helens,— J.H. 



