246 
FLORA OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF LIVERPOOL. 
* * * * With two small and slightly punctate fovese, on each side, at the base 
of the thorax. 
d , acuminata ^ Stu. ; 10. lata ^ Stu. ; 11. Steph. ; 1 % Linnmi ^ 
Ryl. ; 13. convexio }\ WiLK .; 14. brunnea , Steph. ; 15. discrejpans ^ 
Marsh. ; 16. atra ^ Steph.; 17. Isevis ^ Stu. 
* * -x- * * Thorax with two deeply punctate fovess, on each side at the base. 
18. elegans^ Ryl. ; 19. plebeia^ Steph ; 20. ohtusa^ Steph. ; 21. hifrons^ 
Steph. : 22. agilis^ Ryl.; puncticolUsy Ryl. ; 24. crassa^ Steph. 
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ m With the abbreviated striae near the scutellum obliterated. 
25. tibialis^ Steph. ; 26. injima^ Steph. 
Bei 0 seg House^ near Warrington^ June 15, 1837. 
A LIST OF PLANTS COLLECTED NEAR LIVERPOOL, IN THE 
SUMMER OF 1836. 
Dear Sir, —As a reader of your interesting Magazine, and being anxious, as 
far as I am able, to contribute to its support, I take the liberty ot sending you a 
list of plants collected in the neighbourhood of Liverpool, during the summer of 
1836. For some of the localities not noticed by myself, I am indebted to Andrew 
Stewart, Es(1., a gentleman who has investigated a great deal of ground in 
various parts of Britain, and to whose kindness in imparting information I am 
anxious to bear testimony. I have in my Catalogue included all the common 
plants, which you most probably will reject.* My botanical 'excursions have 
been principally confined to the Cheshire coast, as I find many of the stations for 
plants at Bootle given by Dr, Bostock and the late Mr. Shepherd no longer 
exist, owing to the ground having been built upon, and a gi’eat portion dug up 
and cultivated; and the botanist must now extend his researches on the coast 
several miles further to find the plants usually given as growing there. It will 
be necessary to mention, that in naming the plants I have followed Sir James 
Edward Smith's English Flora. 
Salicornia herbacea. Wallasea Vool.f-^Hippuris vulgaris. In ditches near 
* If our correspondent’s catalogue professes to be a Flora of the vicinity of Liverpool, of course 
the common plants cannot be omitted. Besides, with plants as with animals, a species abundant 
in most parts of the country, need not necessarily be plentiful everywhere in that country, or may 
even not occur at all in some spots. Numerous instances of this will doubtless recur to the mind 
of the zoologist and botanist.— Ed. 
f Wallasea Pool is a branch of the Mersey, which is only filled just at high-water, when the 
banks are overflowed for a considerable space ; it abounds in salt marsh plants. 
