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CiiuciFER^. — Cardamine amara grows near a brook about 

 three miles off, on the Wakefield road ; and I am told that 

 Berberis vulgaris is found near it. 



Geraniace^. — Erodium moschatum occurs on the rubbish- 

 heap I have mentioned^ along with an Erodium entirely unknown 

 to me. [E. malacoides.~\ 



Balsaminace^. — A friend who visited Bretton Park some 

 weeks ago, tells me that Tmpatiens Noli-me-tangere is in great 

 abundance there, forming, in fact, large patches in the park. 

 Last, but not least, we have found an enormous tract of *Sapo- 

 naria opcinalis on the banks of the Calder, below Colne Bridge. 



BOTANICAL SKETCHES. 

 New Brighton Plants. By a Correspondent. 



The author of the following notes and remarks having nothing- 

 new to tell about the plants of this interesting part of Cheshire, 

 hopes that his communication may be acceptable although ano- 

 nymous. 



We left Leigh station on the Bolton Railway about nine 

 o'clock on the 16th July, and reached Liverpool about half-past 

 ten, and New Brighton about half-past eleven. The visitor's 

 great object was to see and collect specimens of what is by our 

 most critical botanists pronounced to be the only genuine repre- 

 sentative of the true Viola canina of Linnseus and the Continental 

 botanists. Whether it be so or not the present deponent does 

 not venture to affirm nor to deny. 



The following list, with the appended remarks, will, in order to 

 avoid repetition, be arranged as in the usually received classifi- 

 cation. 



The only interesting plant among the Crucifers growing about 

 New Brighton, where it is very plentiful, is Brassica monensis or 

 Sinapis monensis, for it, like many other plants, has been several 

 times changed from one genus to another. Its name, Isle of 

 Man Cabbage, will serve for identification better than the more 

 scientific appellations. There may be raised a question about 

 the propriety of this name, for it does not possess many charac- 

 teristics of the Cabbage, and it is not confined to the Isle of Man. 

 But to the inland botanist it is an interesting plant, and he is 



