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terifolius Scluim. in (5) the river Dee near Sliocklack in Aug. 

 1899, and P. densus L. is recorded in this Journal for 1886, p. 140, 

 making five species additional to the Flora of Cheshire. With 

 regard to the note under P. comjjiressus {Flora, 287) the speci- 

 mens so named from "Hale Moss, G. Caley, 1818," in Mr. Bick- 

 hani's herbarium are P. obtusifolius M. & K. Myosotis cespifosa 

 Selmltz was recorded from Hoylake by Mr. Whitwell in this Journal 

 for 1899 (p. 860). 



A few additional records may be added. Elatine hexandra 

 DC: 3. Delamere, H. Searle sp. 1883. — Callitriche vernalis ' Syme '; 

 to the one station given in the Flora may be added (7) "The 

 race-course, Knutsford, 1869," herb. De Tabley. The omission of 

 C. Lachii Warren has already been noted (Journ. Bot. 1899, 277) ; 

 there are sheets in De Tablej^'s herbarium from (2) "Tabley Moat " 

 and (5) " The Lach Eye meadows." — Saxifraga Hirculus L. is 

 noted in the Flora as " extinct since 1830 or 1840," but J. B. Wood 

 in Phjrfc. i, 282, 700 (1842-3) writes that it then still existed on 

 Knutsford Moor. — The occurrence of ArctostaphyJos Vva-ursi 

 Wimm. is doubted in the Flora, but Mr. Cash {Naturalist, 1887, 

 183) cites from W. Wilson's notes in the Warrington Museum : " at 

 the head of the valley near to Staleybridge called the Bushes, 

 June 15, 1832 " : this is clearly a Cheshire station. — Euphorbia port- 

 landica L. " Sand-hills on the banks of the Dee, ^ West Kirb}^ 

 Wirral," June 1900, H. Bell sp. ; see also Jonrn. Bot. 1900, 319.-- 

 Carex limosa L. 6. Wyburnbury, A. H. Evans sp. 1906. — Lyco- 

 podium clavatum L. 5. Bickerton and Peckforton Hills, WoUey- 

 Dod. — -For other additional records see Naturalist, 1899, 353, 1904, 

 23, and Mr. Spencer Moore's notes in Journ. Bot. 1900, 74. — 

 Arthur Bennett. 



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