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Wallasea Pool, at Bootle, and in the Moss ditches at Formby. — Veronica ser- 

 pylli folia. In fields, Woodside. — V. Beccabunga. Ditches, Woodside. — V. offi- 

 cinalis. On dry banks, "Woodside. — V. Chamcedrys. Woodside. — V. montana. 

 Tranmere Wood. — V. hederifolia. Woodside. — Utricularia vulgaris. In pits; 

 North Birkenhead. — Lycopus Europceus. In Ponds at Tranmere, on the Chester 

 Road. — Anthoxanthum odoratum. Fields, Woodside. — Iris pseudacorus. In 

 ponds, Woodside. — Scirpus lacustris. In pits, North Birkenhead. — S. maritimus. 

 Wallasea Pool. — Eleocharis palustris. In ponds, Woodside. — Phleum arenarium. 

 Sand-hills, New Brighton.* A. Stewart, Esq. — Glyceria aquatica and Briza me- 

 dia. Woodside. — Dactylis glomerata. — Arundo arenaria. New Brighton. — Hor- 

 deum maritimum. Wallasea Pool. — Bromus asper. Birkenhead Abbey walls. — 

 Triticum junceum. New Brighton. — Dipsacus pilosus. Formerly grew on the 

 site of Abercromby Square, Liverpool. A. Stewart, Esq. — Dipsacus sylvestris. 

 Bidstone. — Scabiosa succisa. Tranmere Wood, and fields, Woodside. — Sherar- 

 dia arvensis. Fields, Woodside. — Asperula odorata. Tranmere Wood. — Ga- 

 lium saxatile. Tranmere Heath. — Galium verum. New Brighton. — G. uligi- 

 nosum. In ponds, Woodside. — Parietaria officinalis. Birkenhead Abbey walls, 

 A. Stewart, Esq. — Plantago maritima and P. coronopus. Wallasea Pool. — 

 P. major and P. lanceolata. Woodside. — Potamogeton natans. In ponds, 

 Woodside. — Cynoglossum officinale and Lycopsis arvensis. New Brighton. — 

 Primula vulgaris. Woodside. — P. veris. Though so common in some counties, 

 I have not seen it in this neighbourhood, and I believe it is comparatively rare 

 in the vicinity of Liverpool. — Menyanthes trifoliata. Very common in pits at 

 North Birkenhead. — Lysimachia vulgaris. Bootle. — L. nemorum. Tranmere 

 Wood. — L. nummularia. Gilbrook. — Anagallis arvensis. Woodside. — A. 

 c&rulea. Certainly wild in Hamilton Square Garden, Woodside, A. Stewart, 

 Esq. ; it is also reported to grow in Tranmere Wood. — Convolvulus arvensis. 

 Woodside, common in the fields. — C. sepium is comparatively rare with us ; I 

 have only once seen it, and that was in a lane close to the Liverpool Zoological 

 Gardens. — Campanula rotundifolia. New Brighton. — Jasione montana. Bid- 

 stone Stone-quarry, t and at New Brighton, with white flowers. — Viola tricolor. 

 New Brighton, varying much in the colour of the corolla. — Viola canina. Wood- 

 side. — V. odorata. Speke. — Verbascum thapsus. On the road to Chester, near 



* ** The soil at Woodside and neighbourhood is clay based on rock. At New Brighton it 

 consists of yellow sand, superincumbent on red sand-stone ; it is much divided by fissures and of 

 inferior quality." 



f This locality may appear strange for some of the plants, but the Stone-quarry is part of a 

 range of hills stretching for some distance (on one of which is the Light House and Telegraph 

 Station), and the site of it is covered with verdure, much more varied and luxuriant than we are 

 usually accustomed to lee in this neighbourhood. 



