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C. As a ballast plant on the banks of Wallasey Pool (t.g.). 
About Birkenhead Docks (h.s.f. ; t.g.). 1883, Great Meols, 
extending at intervals towards Hoylake and Leasowe (r.b.); 
there in 1900. About Wallasey (Dr. g.). 
S. Coronopus ( Poir .). Fig. 57. Wart Cress. Native. A. VI-IX. 
Waste ground, roadsides, &c. Frequent. 
C. Parkgate ; Queensferry ; Backford (Dr. g.). 
Lepidium (L.). Pepperwort. 
L. latifolium (L.). Fig. 58. Broad-leaved Pepperwort. Dittander. 
Denizen. P. VII, VIII. 
Waste ground. Very rare. 
C. Plentiful on the hedge cop of L. side of road leading from 
Meols Station towards the village. 
Note. — This is probably the remains of cultivation. 1902, This old 
station is now threatened by building operations. 
L. ruderale (A.). Fig. 59. Narrow-leaved Pepperwort. Native. 
A. V, VI. 
Banks. Very rare. 
L. 1901, Formby (r.c.). About Aintree and Walton (j.a.w.). 
C. Queensferry, close to the Ferry House, in the interstices 
between the stone blocks forming the river bank (D.). As a 
ballast plant at Birkenhead ; new made roads at Claughton 
(h.s.f.). 
L. sativum (L.). Garden Cress. Alien. A. VI, VII. 
Rubbish heaps, &c. Occasional. Always of garden origin. 
L. About Aintree and Walton (j.a.w.). 
C. 1895, Hoylake Station siding (Dr. g.). 
L. campestre ( R.Br .). Fig. 60. Mithridate Pepperwort. Native. 
B. VI-VIII. 
Cultivated fields, waste places, &c. Frequent. 
L. Hale. 
C. I nee to Helsby (Flora committee, 1893). About Oxton ; More- 
ton ; West Kirby; Eastham ; Ness; &c. (Dr. g.). 
L. Smithii (Hook). Fig. 61 . Smooth Field Pepperwort. Native. 
P. VI-VIII. 
Borders of fields, &c. Occasional in Cheshire. Rare in 
Lancashire. 
L. Southport (D.). Score Lane, between Childwall Church 
and Broad Green ; Field by the railway, near Red Brow, 
Kirkby (f.m.w.). 
C. Hedges at Eastham and Rock Ferry (D.). Field between 
