14 DUNLOP, Alien Plants of the Warrington District. 



Note. — Some numbers of this plant grow near Sale by the 

 side of a road known as Brooks's Drive. This is a private 

 road running from Brooklands Station to the road leading 

 to Wilmslow. On each side of the road is a plantation 

 running the whole length of the drive planted with trees 

 and uncommon shrubs. These were planted about 30 

 years ago by the late Sir William Cunliffe Brooks. There 

 are about a dozen plants at intervals along this drive, but I 

 have no information whether they were planted or not. 

 Some of them have every evidence of being self-sown. 



The locality is just outside the Warrington area, but the 

 plants are worthy of record. 



^Rjibns laciniatus, Willd. Alien. 



59. Slutcher's Lane, 30th July, 1892; one very fine 

 plant grew here. (C.R.B.) 



Note. — I do not recollect it as a cultivated species in the 

 Warrington district. The Rev. W. M. Rogers omits this 

 species in his " Handbook of the British Rubi," and says of 

 it — preface, p. vii. — " the lacinate leaved lorm (or forms) 

 so frequent in shrubberies, and in waste places near towns 

 .... is apparently unknown as a native plant anywhere." 



^Potentilla norvegica, Linn. Alien. 



58. Acton Grange railway embankment, July, 1907 ; 

 two plants. 



CratcBgus PyracantJia, Linn. A garden escape ; not un- 

 common on old house and cottage sites. 

 58. " I once found it flourishing on an old cottage 

 garden site at Higher Whitley. The cottage itself had 

 long disappeared." (C.R.B.) 



Ribes rubruvi, Linn. Denizen ; frequent in woods and 

 plantations. 

 58. Both species of Ribes occur in Appleton Dingle. 



Ribes nigrum, Linn. Denizen ; frequent in woods and 

 plantations. 



