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The policy of Free Trade in those articles is quite a 
different question, and one far too large to he here treated. 
The substitute suggested in my last paper, may or may not 
he the hest to he adopted ? It is sound in principle, and 
may yet he deemed expedient in practice some thirty or 
forty years hence. 
I have lived to witness even greater changes in the 
national mind, and in the policy of the Government, than 
that anticipated from raising the public revenue mainly 
by a direct tax on realised wealth. 
MICROSCOPICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SECTION. 
March 1st, 1869. 
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“Remarks on the Flora of Cheshire; with Notices of the 
New and Rarer Plants of the County, 5 ’ by Mr. Spencer 
Bickham, Jun. 
The following list of Cheshire plants includes such species 
as have not hitherto to my knowledge been recorded as 
occurring in the county, or, if noticed, the station has not 
been verified for some years ; as well as new localities for 
some of the rarer species. 
Teesdalia nudicaulis. This species formerly grew at 
Bowdon, 15 years ago, and is recorded in the Manchester 
Flora as existing on Knutsford racecourse, but I have not 
noticed it for some years in either situation. It grows in 
the greatest profusion on banks about Delamere. 
Draba verna, var. brachycarpa, grows on banks at the 
east end of Oakmere. The normal form of this species is 
far from common in this district, and I am not aware of the 
var. brachycarpa having been before recorded. 
