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PJialaris canariensis, Linn. Casual. 



Very frequent, but always on rubbish heaps and 

 waste ground. 

 *Broiinis erectus, Huds. Alien. 



58. Walton, spoil bank, loth June, 1896. (C.R.B.) 



*Broiims sccalimis, Linn. Alien. 



58. Walton, spoil bank, loth June, 1896, (C.R.B.) 



*Bromiis arvensis, Linn. Alien. 



58. Walton, spoil bank, loth June, 1896. (C.R.B.) 

 Note. — "Two other species of Bromus occurred in the medley 

 of alien grasses that appeared in this station, neither of 

 these are in the London Catalogue and they were not 

 identified. (C.R.B.) 



Loliiini teimilentinn, Linn., and var., arvense, With. 

 Aliens. 

 58. In the greatest profusion on the spoil bank at 

 Walton Arches. 



Secale cereale, Linn. Casual ; occasionally on waste 

 ground. 



Hordeuni murinuin, Linn. Alien. 



58. Preston Brook, on canal side, 3rd July, 1896. 

 (C.R.B.). Acton Grange, railway embankment, Sept. 

 1907. 



59. Orford, railway bank, iith June, 1888. (C.R.B.) 



Onoclea sensibilis, Linn. An escape. 



58. "Near Warrington: no doubt an escape." 

 Hooker's "Student's Flora," p. 535. 



Note. — The "near Warrington" station of Hooker is 

 Orford. The plant is locally known as the "Orford 

 Fern." The earliest mention of it is found in " A Cata- 

 logue of the Plants in the garden of John Blackburne, Esq., 

 at Orford Hall, Lancashire," by Adam Neale, gardener, and 

 published by William Eyres at the Warrington Press in 

 1779. 

 The fern still occurs sparingly in the neighbourhood. 



