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carpellavy leaves ; and it is incorrect to say that the ovary is one- 

 celled. 



William Wilson. 

 Warrington, March 12, 1850. 



Remarks upon a few of the Rarer Plants found in Cheshire. 

 By Robert Holland, Esq. 



Whilst botanizing last year in Cheshire, I made a few remarks 

 upon some of the rarer plants that I found. I send you my notes, 

 that you may make use of them, if you think them worth a page in 

 the ' Phytologist.' 



Corydalis claviculata. This elegant plant is by no means uncom- 

 mon in Cheshire, being found on most of the peaty soils, covering the 

 hedge-banks, and clinging to the hedges, in masses so tangled and 

 matted together as almost to choke up the plants over which it trails. 

 I have seen it literally hiding the ground in woods planted on a peaty 

 soil. The localities where I have found it the finest, and growing in 

 the greatest abundance, are woods around Holford Moss, near North - 

 wich, and on the hedges in various parts of the parish of Mobberley. 



Cardamine amara. This grows on the banks of the brook that 

 flows through Marthall, and it is to be found by the side of most of 

 the streamlets in the neighbourhood. 



Tilia parvifolia. Of this I have seen many fine trees in the woods 

 around Tabley, Knutsford, but I should be cautious in recording this 

 as a true locality, as in all probability they have been planted there. 



Arenaria marina. I have never botanized on the Cheshire coast, 

 and cannot say whether this plant is to be found in the county grow- 

 ing in its natural localities, but I have gathered it in a perfectly inland 

 situation, on the margins of the reservoirs in which the rock-salt is 

 dissolved, at the salt works, Northwich, where it grows, not sparingly, 

 here and there a plant, as if the seeds had by some chance been scat- 

 tered there, but plentifully, shooting up in every crevice of the stone- 

 work. Indeed, I should think that the distance from the sea is too 

 great to allow of the seeds having been brought there by either birds, 

 the wind, or by canal boats, and therefore it is fair to look upon these 

 plants as existing evidences of a sea having covered Cheshire at some 

 (geologically speaking) recent period. An idea beautifully followed 

 out by Professor Buckman, F.L.S., in a most interesting little work 



