450 LANCASHIRK AND CHESHIRE BOTANY. [Ma7'c7t, 



Casting our eyes over the towers and chimneys of Warrington, 

 we see the tall and taper spire of Winwick, one of the richest 

 rectories in England. This portion of South Lancashire appears 

 like a well-wooded country, owing to the number of trees, chiefly 

 oak, grown in the hedgerows. 



The township of Kenyon lies to the right of Winwick, and 

 that brown, scorched-looking patch of land in the same direction 

 is Woolston Moss, a botanical Paradise in August and Septem- 

 ber, the resort of bees and botanists. 



Lymm, famed by the geologist as one of the places where the 

 footprints of the Batrachians occur in the New Red Sandstone, 

 may be seen almost dne east from w here we stand. Out of sight, 

 and about three miles to the south, stands Stretton Moss, and 

 formerly, Whittley Reed, now under cultivation. 



The range of which the hill we are standing on forms part, ex- 

 tends along the course of the Mersey to Helsby, and includes Hill 

 Cliff, Keckwick Hill, with Runcorn, Overton and Helsby Hills, 

 the latter of which, strange to say, bears in some aspects, con- 

 siderable resemblance to the profile of a living statesman. 



Tlie Dingle and the Denna are formed by the steep, wood- 

 covered banks of two upland rivulets, the former on the east side 

 of Hill Cliff, and the latter on the west, its waters supplying the 

 reservoir of the Warrington Water- works. The overflow from 

 the latter, in wending its way towards the river, passes through 

 Lower. Walton, and to the right of Acton Grange and Morley 

 Common. 



As to the character of the soil, it is in the bed of the valley 

 alluvial, gradually passing southwards, to sandy. Crossing the 

 Sankey Canal, and passing the Moated Hall of Bewsey, we come 

 into Burtonwood, where the soil is a stiff clay. Orford is situated 

 on the verge of the Borough northwards, and the soil is a rich 

 black loam. Dobbie's Locks is where the Old Quay Canal enters 

 the Mersey, a little above Warrington. 



The localities here enumerated are included within a radius of 

 about twelve miles around Warrington. 

 4. Thalicfcrum flavum, L. Arpley, Acton Grange, scarce. 

 16. Ranunculus Lingua, L. Sankey, in Lancashire, and Lower 



Walton, in Cheshire, plentiful where it occurs. 

 18. Ranunculus auricomus, L. Dutton Bottoms, Cheshire. 

 31. Ranunculus bulbosus, L. Arpley. 



