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yellow flowers. — Erodium cicutarium, and Geranium sanguineum. New 

 Brighton. — G. molle, G. dissectum, and G. Robertianum- Woodside. — Malva 

 sylvestris and M. rotundifolia. Woodside. — M. moschata. Not common with us ; 



I once found it abundantly in a field, near the New Market, Woodside 



Fumaria officinalis. Woodside. — F. capreolata. Birkenhead Abbey walls, A. 

 Stewart, Esq. — Polygala vulgaris. Bidstone Hill, with purple flowers ; New 

 Brighton, with white and flesh-coloured ones. — Spartium scoparium. Woodside. 

 — Genista tinctoria. Occupying too great a portion of our pasture fields. — G. 

 Anglica. Formerly at Bootle, A. Stewart, Esq. — Utex Europceus. Woodside. 

 — Ononis arvensis. With spines at Woodside ; at New Brighton, abundant, 

 and without spines. — Anthyllis vulneraria. New Brighton.— Orobus tuberosus. 

 Woodside. — Latkyrus pratensis. Woodside. — Vicia cracca. Woodside.- — As- 

 tragalus hypoglottis. On the road to Bidstone, A. Stewart, Esq. — Trifolium 

 ornithopodioides. New Brighton, A. Stewart, Esq. — T. minus. Woodside. — 

 Hypericum androscemum. In lanes about Woodside and Seacombe. — H. humi- 

 fusum. Hamilton Square, A. Stewart, Esq. — H.pulchrum. Woodside, and in 

 dells at Seacombe. — Sonchus arvensis, and S. oleraceus. Woodside. — Hieracium 

 pilosella and H. murorum. New Brighton. — Leontodon taraxacum, Apargia 

 hirta, and A. autumnalis. Woodside. — Hieracium sabaudum. Woodside, Bid- 

 stone Stone-quarry, &c. — H. umbellatum. Rabbit-warren, Bootle, with the 

 glandular swellings in the stems mentioned by Sir J. E. Smith. — Crepis 

 tectorum, Hypochceris radicata. Smooth and hairy specimens. Woodside — 

 Cichorium intybus. Reported to grow with us, but I have not seen it. — Arctium 

 lappa. Between this and A. bardana I cannot distinguish ; I have specimens 

 from the same locality, varying much as regards the woolliness of the calyx. — 

 Serratula tinctoria. Gilbrook. — Cnicus lanceolatus and C. arvensis. Woodside. 

 — C. palustris. The white-flowered one is the most common. — Bidens tripartita. 

 Woodside. — Artemisia maritima. Wallasea Pool. — A. vulgaris. Woodside. — 

 Gnaphalium uliginosum. Woodside. — Tussilago farfara. Woodside. — T.peta- 

 sites. Bidstone. — Senecio vulgaris. Woodside. — S.sylvaticus. Bidstone Stone- 

 quarry. — S.tenuifolius. Woodside. — S.Jacobcea. Woodside and New Brighton. 

 This plant grows in the greatest profusion every where in this neighbourhood, 

 and seems to defy the most parching summers ; at New Brighton, where it covers 

 immense tracts of sand-hills, it is devoured by myriads of the larvae of Callimor- 

 phd Jacobcea (Pkalcena Jacobcea, Linn.) ; the perfect Moth is so numerous as to 

 have long attracted the attention of the most incurious ; I never could find them 

 in the pupa state, though the caterpillars may be collected in any quantity, but 

 they are very difficult to rear. — Aster tripolium. Wallasea Pool. — Solidago 

 virgaurea. Bidstone Stone-quarry and Tranmere Wood. This plant varies 

 much in habit ; at Bidstone it is short, shrubby, and the panicle of many flowers 



