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Bebirw, 
The Flora of Liverpool. A List of the Indigenous Flowering Plants 
and Ferns growing within fifteen miles of the Liverpool Exchange, 
and two miles of Southport. Published by the Liverpool Naturalists’ 
Field Club. Liverpool. 1872. (Pp. 178.) 
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ance of this new * Flora of Liverpool? in a completed form. The work 
before us is certainly a great advance upon the Floras of Hall and 
Dickinson. The district meted out by the Liverpool botanists for their 
researches comprises an area whose vegetation is replete with interest. 
of our island are thinning out, and northern types are beginning to 
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there as brilliant in its colouring ; above Heswall in September the 
contrast of the Ulex Gullii, Planch. and Gentiana Pneumonanthe wit 
the heath in flower is very striking. There are also lengths of Geranium 
sanguineum, L., in bloom rather earlier just north of Parkgate. The 
Cheshire island of Hilbre, a wild desolate spot difficult of access, pro- 
have already detected Blysmus rufus, L. (a plant, we believe, new to 
Cheshire) in this district.” At Moston, a little north of Chester, Sagit- 
taria apparently puts in its first eomital appearance. Carex acuta, Hs 
Sison A comum, L., Carduus acanthoides, L., and Glyceria aquatica, 
L. all begin to crop up here and there; these are plants which à 
London botanist would scarcely notice, but they become rare and note- 
worthy within the radius of the Liverpool flora. We must go to the 
yery walls and ways of Chester city itself to find Hordeum murinum, 
L., as we find it about London. You might tra r years as a bota- 
nist over the electoral district of Mid-Cheshire, and never gather a single 
spike. You will not see any thyme there, and you will not € 
Senebiera Coronopus, Poir., or a vestige of the common teazel ; Malva 
sylvestris, L., you will see, but only once or twice. Surely the absences 
of any given Flora are more curious than the occurrences. As We 
