166 ON SOME DOUBTFUL SPECIES IN THE CHESHIEE FLORA. 



portions of the county, but none on rigid scrutiny appearing to establish 

 the species as clearly a Cheshire native. It has been introduced with 

 lawn turf, with canal ballast, and with grass seeds, &c. The best 

 report of it is from Mr. Watson, who saw the plant between Chester 

 and Queen's Ferry ; but this would clearly place it in Flintshire, and 

 remove to that county Mr. Watson's personal guarantee for the species 

 in Chester as given in Topog. Bot., p. 327. Jiieither Mr. Watson nor 

 Mr. Webb have seen the plant in the Congleton vicinity. 



Atriplex Smithii, Syme. I have seen no specimen of this which 

 is beyond doubt and contest. In this genus unless the specimens be 

 fully matured and entire they are useless. A. deltoidea, Bab., is only 

 known from the canal side at Broadheath, though its littoral variety, 

 A. triangularis, Willd., occurs here and again along our coast. 



Polygonum maculatum^ Dyer. All reddish-flowered states of P. 

 lapathifolium, "Linn.", are worth collecting. Such fall into two 

 plants, the genuine P. maculatum, Dyer, and the rose-coloured variety 

 of restricted P. lapathifolium. Both forms deserve record. 



Polygonum mite, Bchrank. I endorse Mr. Hunt's conclusion that 

 the P. mite of Mere Mere is only luxuriant P. minus. The plant 

 at Wimslow Station, suggested in my " Notes" for further examination, 

 I now consider as certainly a slender-spiked form of P. Persicaria. The 

 latter point was thus cleared up. I observed last year in an exactly 

 analogous habitat, viz., rubbish near Thames Ditton Station, Surrey, 

 a plant identical with the Wimslow one. Mr. Watson kindly inspected 

 the plant growing, and considered it sufficiently near P. mite to 

 warrant a reference to Dr. Syme, who placed it under P. Persicaria. 

 The result of all this is that P. mite still remains a blank for the 

 county. 



Hahenaria alhida, Brown. Has doubtless occurred in the past, but 

 recent specimens would be desirable. 



Malaxis paludosa, Sw. " Chester " is given for this in Topog. Bot,, 

 and Mr. Wilson has marked it in one of his Cheshire lists. Query, May 

 not Yorkshire ground be intended ? But it is a plant to bear in mind 

 upon the moors of Woodhead and thereabouts. 



Potamogeto7i mtccronatus, Schrad. I have ascertained by reference 

 to Dr. Syme, and by personal examination of specimens, that this 

 species indubitably occurs in Cheshire. It may reasonably be expected 

 to turn up almost anywhere in Bucklow Hundred. This is a fact of 

 interest to botany beyond Cheshire, since in E. B. the species is only 

 noted in two places throughout England, one near Reigate, where it 

 is mentioned as now extinct, the other from " Stoke Heath, Warring v 

 ton," which should be Warwickshire. 



Eriophorum lati folium, Hoppe. No specimens of the genuine plant 

 have been seen. The records are clearly in most instances misnomers 

 for broad-leaved states of PJ. angustifolium, Roth. The real species 

 once seen can never be confounded. It should be searched for. 



Carex eu-flava, Syme. It seems clear that with us this form is 

 rarer even than eu-CEderi, and both are beyond all comparison less 

 general than the widely diffused C. lepidocarpa, Tausch. The true 

 C. CEderi should be sought on the coast, and the only specimen seen 

 of eu-Jlava is from Wybunbury. 



