Che City Flora. 
BY E. J. BAILLIE. 
Precursory CATALOGUE OF PLANTS WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES 
oF THE City or tHE County or CHESTER. 
HE City bounds may, for guidance, be thus defined :— 
Starting from the General Railway Station the line of 
demarcation takes a south-easterly direction, through Boughton, 
to the little patch of meadow land beyond the Water- Works, 
near the Fords, thence up the centre of the river to Heron 
Bridge, thence in a deviating course to Lache Hall, across the 
Chester and Shrewsbury line of rails, past Saltney Station, 
across the river, and on to Blacon, near the point where the 
main road diverges, thence by Finchett’s gutter to the Bache 
Pool, and along Flookersbrook to the Station. 
The Catalogue is compiled from the records of City Plants, 
collected and noted during 1875-77 by Members of the Botanical 
Section of the Society, and is arranged according to the seventh 
edition of the London Catalogue, the distinctive index numbers 
corresponding therewith. 
It will be remarked that several important and universally 
distributed genera, such as Rubus, Rosa, Potamogeton, Saliz, 
Chenopodium, Atriplex, and Rumex, are not included in the list. 
The whole of these genera have representatives in the City Flora, 
but specimens have not yet been critically examined, and there- 
fore no definite specific records have been made. The Hon. 
J. LeIcEstER WARREN specially directs attention to the order 
Chenopodiace, and we have within the City many species of both 
Chenopodium and Artriplex. 
Mention should perhaps be made of the existence of several 
interesting species, well established, within a few yards of the 
City bounds at various points, but not yet recorded as actually 
within the City. Amongst others Symphytum officinale, Sper- 
gularia rubra, Sagina nodosa, Schlerochloa distans, Cicuta virosa, 
Cichorium Intybus, Stellaria aquatica, Saxtfraga granulata, and 
Typha latifolia. 
The plants marked * are from records supplied by Mr. F. M. 
Wess to the Hon. J. Leicester Warren for his “ Cheshire 
Flora,” and kindly supplied by Mr. Warren for the list of City 
Plants. 
