NOTES ON THE FLORA OF FLINTSHIRE 41 
canals. In this respect it compares unfavourably with a district 
like South Lancashire. The quays a adjacent ground at Mostyn 
and Connah’s Quay have yielded a number of examples which in 
have originated in this wa n many cases the railways are 
responsible for the introduction or grag sometimes both, of 
various aliens. xamples of this t are Linaria minor, 
Senecio viscosus, ee aangustfabin, Diplotaxis muralis, 
various species of Melilotus, Sometimes the railway may be 
responsible for extending he vices of a more or less local species 
which is indigenous to ee county, e.g. Silene nutans. The 
ground in the vicinity of the Dee Oil Works at Saltney is de- 
ian fe of attention, os will doubtless yield some additions to 
the ali 
I have been favoured with ro Re information and assist- 
ance of various kinds from several friends. In this connection I 
have to thank Mrs. Sa (Cwm), Mrs. New (Mollington), 
and the Misses Payne and Miss F. M. Thomas, of Chester; also 
the Rey. W. Wright Mason, B. A. (Bootle), Dr. H. Drinkwater, 
E.R.S. bee Messrs. R. H. Day (Cwm), A. Newstead 
(Chester), and J. A. Wheldon, F.L.S. (Liverpool). To Miss 
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identification of various insect visitors, Diptera in particular. 
Owing to an oversight a number of conjoint records of Mrs. New 
and the Misses Payne in my second paper (1908) were ascribed 
solely to the latter ; "the following which were credited to the 
Misses Payne are due to Mrs. New :—Viola odorata. Silene lati- 
folia, Hypericum quadrangulum, Melilotus altissima, Cichorium 
Int ybus, an venopodium rubrum. I have seen — of the 
plants in the localities to which Mr. Day’s name is attae 
herbaria of two former Chester botanists, Mis E 
the joéalities wiaeh are entered in Mi tts’s "writing eae 
the various species there are several referring to Flintshire which 
go wad represented by gp ue Species w. 
Clematis Vitalba L. Hedge on left of road jst — 
Northop, towards Connah’s bre one plant in hedge 
