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'^'Iiiipatieiis bijlomi, Walt. Introduced. 



58. Thelwall, in the old river bed, 27th Aug., 1905. 

 Teste Mr. F. Fuller. 



Note. — I have searched carefully all the old records, and 

 the Wilson Herbarium, but can find no trace of the 

 plant in this station. Mr. C. R. Billups, who has worked 

 the local area thoroughly, knows nothing of the plant. 



Euonymus curopicus, Linn. Denizen. 



58. Thicket on Weaver bank, near Sutton Lock, 

 28th May, 1887. (C.R.B.). Still there in 1906. 

 Cytisns scoparins, Link. Native, also as alien. 



58. Dunsdale Hollow, Frodsham Hills ; very fine 

 and truly native in this station. (C.R.B.) 



It also grows on railway banks as an alien. 

 Note. — The "Flora of Liverpool" says "along the Chester 

 railway." The " Flora of Cheshire " says of it " like other 

 species with us that are often imported it occurs oftenest 

 in any profusion on railway banks." It is of interest, 

 therefore, to record that broom was one of the first plants 

 to appear on the new railway embankments made near 

 Warrmgton when the Ship Canal was in construction. I 

 noted fine isolated bushes at Moore, Daresbury, Acton 

 Grange, and again near Walton Arches. It is not easy 

 to account for its presence in such stations by simple 

 '• extension," the nearest native station being too far away. 

 It also appeared on the Ship (^lanal banks in Ellesmere 

 Road, Stockton Heath. I believe it was subsequently 

 planted there in order to fix the shifting sand of the 

 sloping parts of the banks. C.R.B. 



The plant has extended its range along the Ship Canal 

 banks on both sides as far as the Latchford Locks. It 

 still maintains its station in Ellesmere Road, but it is 

 being choked out gradually on the lower banks by the 

 competing gorse. 



It occurs on the Ship Canal banks at Acton Grange, 

 but it is becoming scarcer owing to the gorse. 



There are some very fine bushes on the spoil bank at 

 Moore, where it has more room to develop. 



