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The Flora of the Liverpool District, ilhistratocl in- Drawing-s and 

 I'hotoi^^raplis. Edited by C. Theodore Green, M.R.C.S. , etc. Liver- 

 pool, D. Marples & Co., 1902. Price 5s. 



This work i^iv'cs localities for over 1,060 species, of which 

 804 are fii^ured by Miss E. M. Wood ; and 14 photographs, 

 some of which could have been made to serve a scientific 

 purpose, are reproduced as illustrating- the scenery of the 

 district. There is an introduction of eight pages; and a chapter 

 is appended by Mr. J. J. Fitzpatrick, who contributes seven 

 pag-es on the geology of the district, and Rev. J. Cairns Mitcliell, 



Mighiown Sandhills. 



who supplies 22 pages of valuable meteorological notes and 

 tables. The Phanerogams, Pteridophyta, and Charace^ re- 

 corded grow * within fifteen miles of the Liverpool Town 

 Hall, and two miles of Southport.' This area at first sight 

 seems very unnatural ; but if the mountain limestone area ot 

 Flintshire had been left out of account, as it might well have 

 been, the unnaturalness would have been more apparent than 

 real. There would tiien have been left a lowland district, with 

 underlying rocks all of sandstone — Coal Measures, Bunter, and 

 Keuper, sometimes obscured by glacial clay, peat, and coast 

 sand. Such an area affords a capital opportunity of studying 



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