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INTRODUCTION. 
Dr. J. W. Ellis, F.E.S., past President of Liverpool 
Photographic Society, at much expenditure of both time and 
money to himself, has taken photographs of many of our 
“happy hunting grounds,” so that strangers may understand 
the nature of our country, its sandhills, moors, ponds and 
woods. 
The other special features of this edition are as follows : — 
Through the great generosity of a very old member of 
the Field Club, Mr. Charles Gatehouse, it has been 
possible to provide illustrations of most of our local plants, 
drawn from nature by the able hand of Miss E. M. Wood, 
Botanical Referee to the Field Club. 
A good map of the district is inserted. 
A copious index has been provided, shewing both the 
Latin and English names of plants, with many cross refer- 
ences, having some 1,760 entries, as against 463 (Latin genera 
only) in the edition of 1872. 
The inclusion of many casual plants of both British and 
foreign origin. 
The area for description is as follows : the parts of Lanca- 
shire and Cheshire, and the littoral of Flintshire, within a 
radius of fifteen miles from the Liverpool Town Hall, making 
an exception with regard to Southport, in taking an additional 
area of two miles around that town. The addition of South- 
port is made on account of the many interesting plants found 
there, and because the same ground was included in the Flora 
of Dr. Dickinson, and that of 1872. 
The portion of Flintshire that is included has not been 
fully observed, nor all its plants noted, chiefly owing to the 
difficulty of access from Liverpool and Wirral. 
On the Wirral side of the Dee rather an anomalous con- 
dition obtains, for the bed of the river now lies some two 
miles S.W. of the position it occupied when the county 
