246 FLORA OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF LIVERPOOL. 



* * * * With two small and slightly punctate foveee, on each side, at the base 

 of the thorax. 



9. acuminata, Stu. ; 10. lata, Stu.; 11. similata, Steph. ; 12. Linncei, 

 Ryl. ; 13. convexior, Wilk. ; 14. brunnea, Steph. ; 15. discrepans, 

 Marsh. ; 16. atra, Steph.; 17. Isevis, Stu. 

 ***** Thorax with two deeply punctate fovese, on each side at the base. 

 18. elegans, Ryl.; 19. plebeia, Steph; 20. obtusa, Steph.; 21. bifrons, 

 Steph. : 22. agilis, Ryl. ; 23, puncticollis, Ryl. ; 24. crassa, Steph. 

 ****** With the abbreviated strise near the scutellum obliterated. 



25. tibialis, Steph. ; 26. infima, Steph. 

 Bewsey House, near Warrington, June 15, 1837. 



A LIST OF PLANTS COLLECTED NEAR LIVERPOOL, IN THE 



SUMMER OF 1836. 



Deak Sie, — As a reader of your interesting Magazine, and being anxious, as 

 far as I am able, to contribute to its support, I take the liberty of sending you a 

 list of plants collected in the neighbourhood of Liverpool, during the summer of 

 1836. For some of the localities not noticed by myself, I am indebted to Andrew 

 Stewart, Esq., a gentleman who has investigated a great deal of ground in 

 various parts of Britain, and to whose kindness in imparting information I am 

 anxious to bear- testimony. I have in my Catalogue included all the common 

 plants, which you most probably will reject.* My botanical excursions have 

 been principally confined to the Cheshire coast, as I find many of the stations for 

 plants at Bootle given by Dr. Bostock and the late Mr. Shepherd no longer 

 exist, owing to the ground having been built upon, and a great portion dug up 

 and cultivated ; and the botanist must now extend his researches on the coast 

 several miles further to find the plants usually given as growing there. It will 

 be necessary to mention, that in naming the plants I have followed Sir James 

 Edward Smith's English Flora. 



Salicornia herbacea. Wallasea Pool.t — Hippuris vulgaris. In ditches near 



* If our correspondent's catalogue professes to be a Flora of the vicinity of Liverpool, of course 

 the common plants cannot be omitted. Besides, with plants as with animals, a species abundant 

 in most parts of the country, need not necessarily be plentiful everywhere in that country, or may 

 even not occur at all in some spots. Numerous instances of this will doubtless recur to the mind 

 of the zoologist and botanist. — Ed. 



f Wallasea Pool is a branch of the Mersey, which is only filled just at high-water, when the 

 banks are overflowed for a considerable space •, it abounds in salt marsh plants. 



