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m the ee of Wirral, we get into a more southern vegetation ; 
that isto say, mon southern species, which are rare or absent in- 
land, occur, but Wu as littoral plants. The three weeds above-men- 
tioned become common on the coast, and the teazel turns up here a 
there. Even Ballota pie L., thins out into a dom plant inland in 
Cheshire. Erodium cicutarium, Sm., Spergula nodosa, Meyer, Galium 
verum, L., Torilis nodosa, Gaert., abundant beg on proe) are seldom 
seen at any great distance pa coast influence. apaver Rheeas, L., P. 
Argemone, L., Scandix Pecten, L., Arenaria serpyllifolia, L., aud other 
weeds are also instances of pnis Cheshire rarities. As a make- weight 
there are curious and characteristic plants of the inland, which seem to thin 
out as we approach the shore. Galeopsis versicolor, Curt., Cicuta virosa, 
L. Potamogeton obtii, M. and K., An romeda, ete., are examples ; 
which many of our botanists have not even seen grow 
There is little which demands the office of the critic in s ie new Liverpool 
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supplement to the en Ki . Might we offer a few suggestions to- 
wards this same supplem 
We venture to think er rather too much stress is laid upon discus- 
que r exa ample, 
My 
the ieee district, is certainly most liable to be overlooked. 
one station, at least, should be gives where young botanists me gather 
and study the species; but this is not done n aes uch type is ex- 
pended on the question of its relative frequency o scarceness. 
of pe oat um 
are we to infer that somewhere in the Liverpool area, E. Lathyris 
gaining the position of Æ. He ioscopia in the * cultivated land „of 
corn crops and potato-fields? The ambiguity is certainly worth clearing 
up, and the icm stations given, “ woods and fields," do not seem to 
fit much the more special Frodsham habitats, while another reste! 
records the plant in “ corn-fields.” Once more, we learn that Car 
Gderi, Ehrh., is prevalent on the sandhills, and be Carex Maye! si 
Tausch., is very rare and has been observed once ight gg 
the * Committee " to go into the question, shahd after all C. lepido- 
n 
y 
Suspect a purple-flowered plant cultivated in gardens is here mean 
not the plant of Sibthorp. The genera in which thi is Flora strikes 1 us as 
not quite up to the mark are Ranunculus (in 
Arctium, Potamoge on*, Rubus, and Rumer. In fact, iverpool 
much to do in its docks (we allude a floral and not to mercantile Liver- 
ü Obes are di gem surprised to see Potamogeton filiformis, Nolte., discovered as 
