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7. Phascum cuspidatum. I have not yet found this at 
Mere, but it comes up on banks on the Chester Road be- 
tween Bowdon and Bucklow Hill, when they have been 
newly made up, or plastered with mud from the road. 
8. Leskia polycarpa fruits freely about the roots of trees 
on the borders of Mere, both in autumn and spring. 
9. Hypnum riparium, a very neat variety of this moss, 
fruits in abundance in August and April, on clay banks and 
at the roots of trees at Mere. 
Hepaticce. 
Riccia fluitans and crystallina are both frequent on 
dried mud at Mere, with Phascum patens, &c., and both 
species fruit freely there. 
Numerous interesting flowering plants are also found, viz., 
Elatine hexandra, Limosella aquatica, Peplis portula , 
Polygonum minus, Littorella lacustris — all plentiful on 
mud ; Carex vesicaria, fringing the woods at the edge of 
the Mere. 
Scirpus acicularis, in vast quantity in sandy places. 
Carex (Ederi, in stony and grassy places. This is the true 
(Ederi, and very rare. I have only seen it elsewhere on 
the sands on the south side of Southport, where it is very 
abundant and luxuriant. It appears quite distinct as a 
species from C. flava (including C. lepidocarpa), with which 
it is often placed as a variety, — 
Centunculus minimus, frequent some seasons in the open 
pastures on the borders of the Mere. 
Mentha sativa, in ditches by the road sides between 
Bucklow Hill and Mere Mere. 
Ruhus Balfourianus and Rubas palhidus, in thickets by 
the Mere. 
Polygonum mite has been reported from Mere, but after 
searching without success for it for several seasons, I can only 
suppose that some of the more luxuriant forms of minus, 
