FLORA OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF LIVERPOOL. 
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Wallasea Pool, at Bootle, and in the Moss ditches at Formhy. —Veronica ser- 
'pyllifolia. In fields, Woodside.— V. Beccabunga. Ditches, Woodside.—F. offi¬ 
cinalis. On dry hanks, Woodside.—F. Woodside.—F. wowtow®. 
Tranmere Wood.™F.Woodside,— Utricularia vulgaris. In pits; 
North Birkenhead.— Lgcopus Europ<sus. In Ponds at Tranmere, on the Chester 
Bodi^di.—Anthoxanthum odoratum. Fields, Woodside.— Aris pseudacorus. In 
ponds, Woodside.'— Scirpus lacusiris. In pits. North Birkenhead.—^, maritimus. 
Wallasea Pool.'— -Eleocharis palustris. In ponds, Woodside.—PA/ewm arenarium. 
Sand-hills, New Brighton.* A. Stewart, Esq.— Glyceria aquatica and Briza me¬ 
dia. Woodside.— Dactglis glomerata.-—Arundo arenaria. New Brighton.— 'Bor- 
deum maritimum. Wallasea Vool.—Bromtis asper. Birkenhead Abbey walls.— 
Triticum junceum. New Brighton.— pilosus. Formerly grew on the 
site of Abercromby Square, Liverpool. A. Stewart, Esq.— sylvestris. 
Bidstone;— succisa. Tranmere Wood, and fields, Woodside.— 
dia arvensis. Fields, W oodLside.-—Asperula odorata. Tranmere Wood.— Ga- 
lium saxatile. Tranmere Heath. —-Galium verum. New Brighton.—G. uligi- 
nosum. In ponds, Woodside.— officinalis. Birkenhead Abbey walls, 
A. Stewart, Vi^c^.—Plantago maritima and P. coronopus. Wallasea Pool.— 
P. major and P. lanceolata. "W ood^ide.—-Potamogeton natans. In ponds, 
^OQd%id&.-—Cynoglossum officinale and Lycopsis arvensis. New Brighton.—• 
Primula vulgaris. Woodside.—P. veris. Though so common in some counties, 
I have not seen it in this neighbourhood, and I believe it is comparatively rare 
in the vicinity of Liverpool. —Menyanthes irifoliata. Very common in pits at 
North Birkenhead.— vulgaris. Bootle.— L. nemorum. Tranmere 
Wood.—P. nummularia. Gilbrook.— Anagallis arvensis. Woodside.— A. 
cisrulea. Certainly wild in Hamilton Square Garden, Woodside, A. Stewart, 
Esq.; it is also reported to grow in Tranmere Wood.^ —Convolvulus arvensis. 
Woodside, common in the fields.—C. sepium is comparatively rare with us ; I 
have only once seen it, and that was in a lane close to the Liverpool Zoological 
Gardens. —Campanula rotundifolia. New Brighton.— montana. Bid- 
stone Stone-quarry,t and at New Brighton, with white flowers.—Feo/a tricolor. 
New Brighton, varying much in the colour of the corolla.—F«o/a canina. Wood- 
side.— V. odorata. Speke. —Verbascmn tkapsus. On the road to Chester, near 
*“The soil at Woodside and neighbourhood is clay based on rock. At New Brighton it 
consists of yellow sand, superincumbent on red sand-stone; it is much divided by fissures and of 
inferior quality.” 
f This locality may appear strange for some of the plants, but the Stone-quarry is part of a 
range of hills stretching for some distance (on one of which is the Light House and Telegraph 
Station), and the site of it is covered with verdure, much more varied^and luxuriant than we are 
usually accustomed to nee in this neighbourhood, 
