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botanising with me found a specimen with double flowers, which happened to be 

 growing in a moist place. — Geum urbanum. Tranmere Wood. — Comarum 

 palustre. Pits at North Birkenhead. — Nymphcea alba. This beautiful plant 

 is common in all the ponds near Woodside. The allied species, Nuphar lutea, 

 though much the most common generally, I have not found in this neighbour- 

 hood. — Anemone nemorosa. Tranmere Wood. — Ranunculus lingua. Very 

 plentiful in one locality near Woodside; I have found specimens with double 

 flowers. — R. Jicaria, R. aquatilis, and R. sceleratus. In ponds near Woodside. 

 It is common to find R. aquatilis in pits that are dried up in summer, without 

 the leaves in five segments, as they usually are. — Caltha palustris. Woodside. — > 

 Mentha hirsuta. Tranmere Wood. — Teucrium scorodonia. Very abundant at 

 Woodside, Seacombe, &c. — Verbena officinalis. Sparingly at Woodside. — Ajuga 

 wptans, Gleckoma hederacea, Lamium album, and L. purpureum. Woodside. 

 — L. maculatunu Doubtfully wild in Gilbrook ; in some specimens the leaves 

 are barred with white, in others spotted, and some much more intensely so than 

 others, — Galeopsis tetrahit. On the road to Chester, near Bebbington. — Betonica 

 officinalis. Woodside. — Stachys syhatica and S. palustris- Woodside. — S. 

 arvensis. Sparingly in sandy lanes, Woodside. — Thymus serpyllum. New 

 Brighton — T. calamintha. Sparingly in lanes, Woodside. — Prunella vulgaris. 

 Woodside. — Bartsia viscosa. New Brighton. This plant, mentioned as ex- 

 tremely rare by Sir J. E. Smith, has been found at Ormskirk, Southport, Allerton, 

 Speke, Hale, and Ditton, Lancashire, and on Bartington Heath, Cheshire, by 

 different members of the Botanical Society of Warrington . — B. odontites. Very 

 common in fields at Woodside. — Rhinanthus crista-galli. This plant is so com- 

 mon in all our pastures, that I think it has once been cultivated. — Euphrasia 

 officinalis, Woodside. — Melampyrum pratense. Tranmere Wood. In Wat- 

 son's New Botanical Guide, there are two or three species of Melampyrum 

 mentioned as growing with us, but M. pratense is the only one that I have been 

 able to discover. — Pedicularis palustris and P. sylvatica. Woodside. — Antir- 

 hinum linaria. Woodside. — Scrophularia aquatica, Woodside. This plant, 

 as also Cymbalaria, Birkenhead Abbey walls, is cultivated in gardens frequently, 

 as Bees are supposed to be very partial to the flowers ; is that the case ? — 

 Digitalis purpurea. Bidstone Stone-quarry. The white variety is common in 

 gardens. — Draba verna, Lepidium campestre, and Cardamine pratensis. Wood- 

 side. — Cochlearia officinalis. Wallasea Pool. — Nasturtium officinale. Woodside. 

 — N. terrestre. Not common. Woodside. — Erysimum alliara. Birkenhead 

 Church-yard. — Arabis thaliana. Woodside, varying much in the form of its 

 radical leaves. — Brassica monensis. New Brighton. — Sinapis tenuuifolia. On 

 the walls at Chester, while collecting this plant last summer, I noticed a pair of 

 Humming-bird Hawk-moths sporting beautifully over the large and elegant 



