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botanising with me found a specimen with double flowers, which happened to be 
growing in a moist place.— Geum tirhanum. Tranmere Wood.— Comarum 
palustre. Pits at North Birkenhead.— Nymphcea alba. This beautiful plant 
is common in all the ponds near Woodside. The allied species, Nuphar lutea^ 
though much the most common generally, I have not found in this neighbour¬ 
hood.— Anemone nemorosa. Tranmere Woo4.—Ranunculus lingua. Very 
plentiful in one locality near Woodside; I have found specimens with double 
flowers.— R. ficaria^ R. aquatilis^ and R. sceleratus. In ponds near Woodside. 
It is common to find R. aquatilis in pits that are dried up in summer, without 
the leaves in five segments, as they usually 2 iYQ.~~-Caltha palustris. Woodside.—■ 
Mentha hirsuta. Tranmere Wood.— Teucrium scorodonia. Very abundant at 
Woodside, Seacombe, &c.— Verbena officinalis. Sparingly at Woodside.— Ajaga 
reptans^ Glechoma hederaeea., Lamium album, 2^4 L. purpureum. Woodside. 
— L. maculatum. Doubtfully wild in Gilbrook; in some specimens the leaves 
are barred with white, in others spotted, and some much more intensely so than 
others.— Galeopsis tetrahit. On the road to Chester, near Bebbington.— Betonica 
officinalis. Woodside.— Stachgs sylvatica and S. palustris. Woodside.— S. 
arvensis. Sparingly in sandy lanes, Woodside.— serpyllum. New 
Brighton.— -T. calamintha. Sparingly in lanes, Woodside.— Rrunella vulgaris. 
Woodside.— Bartsia viscosa. New Brighton. This plant, mentioned as ex¬ 
tremely rare by Sir J. E. Smith, has been found at Ormskirk, Southport, Allerton, 
Speke, Hale, and Ditton, Lancashire, and on Bartington Heath, Cheshire, by 
different members of the Botanical Society of Warrington.— B. odontites. Very 
common in fields at Woodside.— Rhinanthus crista-galli. This plant is so com¬ 
mon in all our pastures, that I think it has once been cultivated.— Euphrasia 
offi,cinalis. Woodside.— Melampyrum pratense. Tranmere Wood. In Wat¬ 
son's New Botanical Guide, there are two or three species of Melampyrum 
mentioned as growing with us, but M. pratense is the only one that I have been 
able to discover.— Redicularis palustris and P. sylvatica. Woodside.— Antir- 
hinum linaria. Woodside.— Scrophularia aquatica. Woodside. This plant, 
as also Cymbalaria, Birkenhead Abbey walls, is cultivated in gardens frequently, 
as Bees are supposed to be very partial to the flowers; is that the case ?—> 
Digitalis purpurea. Bidstone Stone-quarry. The white variety is common in 
gardens.— Draba verna, Lepidium campestre, and Cardamine pratensis. Wood- 
side.— Cochlearia officinalis. Wallasea Pool.— Nasturtium officinale. Woodside. 
— N. terrestre. Not common. Woodside.— Erysimum alliara. Birkenhead 
Church-yard.— Arabis thaliana. Woodside, varying much in the form of its 
radical leaves.— Brassica monensis. New Brighton.— Sinapis tenuuifolia. On 
the walls at Chester, while collecting this plant last summer, I noticed a pair of 
Humming-bird Hawk-moths sporting beautifully over the large and elegant 
