ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF WEST LANCASHIRE 4] 
are at present unacquainted. A few less common plants are inserted, 
in order to supply a authority where such is lacking in Topo- 
graphical Botany ; but, as we have no desire to claim these as new 
county records, they are distinguistied by the obelisk sign t+. 
We include a number of extracts from the excellent little Flora 
of the Stonyhurst District, acne edition, 1891 (quoted as F’. S.), by 
the Rev. John Gerard, 8.J., and the Rev. C. A. Newdigate, 8.J., 
whose names, however, are modestly withheld from the title-page. 
As the Stonyhurst ape embraces three vice-counties, the utility 
of this work from our point of view is somewhat limited by the use 
of general expressions is indicat the distribution of the species 
(e.g. ‘€common,” ‘‘ abundant,”’ etc.). We only include such as are 
specially ascribed therein to oad West by the addition of the 
letter W. Some interesting plants are mentioned from just beyond 
our borders. 
If some well-known workers’ names are omitted here, it is only 
because their discoveries are fully recorded in the important publi- 
—_ mentioned in our opening lines, to which this list is supple- 
entary. here no authority follows a locality, it rests on the 
sanbaalitity of the authors emer ; _— the sign ! indicates that 
we are th to confirm records so m 
undistinguis ope to deal at a later welt with questions 
of ere: sree range, and distribution of species, and s 
glad t otes or specimens from 0 botanists which are 
rec 
= A. L. were published by Dr. F. A. Lees in the Naturalist, 1899, 
299. Other contractions used are Wi. (Wilson) and Wh. 
(Wheldon ). 
The Rev. W. M. Rogers, Rev. E. 8. Marshall, and Mr. F. J. 
Hanbury hare — kind enough to examine for us some doubtful 
species, and with characteristic courtesy have readily assisted us 
with — sc teak knowledge, for which we here tender our cordial 
*Clematis Vitalba L. Several plants about Bare, F. 4. L. 
Thalictrum collinum Wallr. Limestone rock- see Dalton 
Crag, June, 1899, Mr. Sydney Wilson (with Wh. & Wi.) 
Waste gr 
e, FA. 
Ranunculus Testes Lam. In the Ri bble at Ree Deep, not 
flowering, F.S. — R. eircinatus Sibth. Canal near Lancaster, 
June, 1899, Whew R. Baudotii Godr. Pool on the sandhills, 
St. Annes, May, 1899, Wh. 
Acta spicata L. In a « pot-hole,” Leck Fell, 1888, W2, 
*Papaver Rheas var. strigosum Boenn. Morecambe, on ballast, 
July, 1899, Wh. — P. Argemone L. Cornfield near St. Annes, 
1898, Wh. 
Fumaria yes Jord. Near Little Eccleston, 1895, Rev. E. S. 
Marshall. — F’, confusa Jord. Near Little Eccleston, 1899, Rev, 
E. 8S, Marshall, 
