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the other side of the brook we detected both Crepis paludosa and 

 Valeriana dioica. The former I saw last in the Highlands^ not 

 far from Loch Lubnaig, and the latter near Finchley, in Middle- 

 sex, many years since. 



By a hedge, on our homeward route, we collected Pimpinella 

 magna, not yet in flower. Thus terminated our most successful 

 day's botanizing at Over. 



Our next best day's work was done in the vale and along the 

 brook adjoining Darnhall, two or three miles from Over, on the 

 MinshuU road. 



In going to Darnhall we crossed the fields and looked into se- 

 veral ponds, in most of which the white and yellow Waterlilies 

 were plentiful, and the former in full flower. In one of these we 

 observed Potamogeton natans and P. pusilla, with the much rarer 

 P. graminea. The drier parts of the pastures were as yellow as 

 a broomy bank in May, with the flowers of the Genista tinctoria, 

 Woadwaxen, or Dyer's- weed. This is one of the stock plants of 

 Cheshire. After leaving Over, and while going by rail to War- 

 rington, this plant was profusely distributed over the fields and 

 meadows, and was very conspicuous, even at considerable distances 

 from the observer. 



In the vale below Darnhall we collected along the brook Pim- 

 pinella magna, only showing flowers, and considerably lower down 

 the magnificent Broad-leaved Bellflower, Campanula latifolia. 

 The usual burnside plants were present here in great luxuriance ; 

 but they need not be mentioned here, as they abound everywhere 

 as well as in Cheshire. Our search for Orchids was fruitless. 



One day we drove over to the village and church of Little Bud- 

 worth, and looked at the vegetation of a large moor. On the drier 

 parts we saw all the common Heaths together, the Bilberry, Vacci- 

 nium Myrtillus, and in a boggy part one of the Droseras, D. ro- 

 tundifolia ; also the pretty Cotton-grass, Eriop)horum angustifo- 

 lium, with its dwarf variety, gracile, not E. gracile, Koch. In 

 returning, we saw a large patch of Saponaria officinalis (Soap- 

 wort), contiguous, as usual, to a cottage- garden. 



On the second day of my arrival we visited Pettypool,* where 



* Eound about this lake or pool, named Pettypool, there is some of the most 

 exquisite scenery of Cheshire, or perhaps of England. It is a charmiag spot. From 

 the heights of the park, and from the road which is the highway to Chester from 

 Middlewich or Northwich, there are very extensive views obtainable. 



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