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FLORA OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF LIVERPOOL. 
yellow flowers.— Erodium cicutarium^ and Geranium sanguineum, NeW 
Brighton.—G. molle^ G. dissectum^ and G. Robertianum. Woodside.-— Malva 
sghestris wAM..rQtundifolia. Woodside.— M. moschata. Not common with us; 
I once found it abundantly in a fields near the New Market, Woodside.-— 
Fumaria officinalis. Woodside.— capreolata. Birkenhead Abbey walls, A, 
Stewart, Esq.— Roly gala vulgaris. Bidstone Hill, with purple flowers ; New 
Brighton, with white and flesh-coloured ones.— Spartium scoparium. Woodside. 
-—Genista tinctoria. Occupying too great a portion of our pasture fields.— G. 
Anglica. Formerly at Bootle, A. St^wabt, 'Esq_.— Ulex Europ^us. Woodside. 
>■—Ononis arvensis. With spines at Woodside; at New Brighton, abundant, 
and without seines.—Antkyilis vulneraria. New Brighton.— tuberosus. 
Woodside.-— -Latkyrus pratensis. Woodside.-— Vida cracca. Woodside.— 
tragalus hypoglottis. On the road to Bidstone, A. Stewart, Esq.— ‘Trifolium 
ornithopodioides. New Brighton, A. Stewart, Esq.— T. minus. Woodside. — 
Hypericum andros(Bmum. In lanes about Woodside and Seacombe.— H. liumi^ 
fusum, Hamilton Square, A. SteWart, Esq.— H. pulchrum. Woodside, and in 
dells at Seacombe.— arvensis, and S^. oleraceus. Woodside.— Hieracium 
pilosella and H. murorum. New Brighton.— taraxacum, Apargia 
hirta, Midi A. autumnalis. Woodside.— Hieracium sahaudum. Woodside, Bid¬ 
stone Sfone-quarry, &c.—H. umbellatum. Babbit-warren, Bootle, with the 
glandular swellings in the stems mentioned by Sir J. E. Smith. — Crepis 
tectorum, Hypockceris radicata. Smooth and hairy specimens. Woodside—» 
Cickorium intybus. Beported to grow with us, but I have not seen it.-— Arctium 
lappa. Between this and A. bardana I cannot distinguish; I have specimens 
from the same locality, varying much as regards the woolliness of the calyx.— 
Serratula tinctoria. Gilbrook.— Cnicus lanceolatus and C. arvensis. Woodside. 
—C. palustris. The white-flowered one is the most common.— tripartita. 
Woodside.— Artemisia maritima. Wallasea Pool.— A. vulgaris. Woodside.— 
Gnaphalium uliginosum. Woodside.-— Tussilago farfara. Woodside.— T.peta- 
sites. Bidstone.— Senecio vulgaris. Woodside.— S.sylvaticus. Bidstone Stone- 
quarry.— S.tenuifolius. Woodside.— S.Jacoboea. Woodside and New Brighton. 
This plant grows in the greatest profusion every where in this neighbourhood, 
and seems to defy the most parching summers; at New Brighton, where it covers 
immense tracts of sand-hills, it is devoured by myriads of the larvae of Callimor- 
pJia Jacohcea {RhalcEna Jacobma, Linn.) ; the perfect Moth is so numerous as to 
have long attracted the attention of the most incurious ; I never could find them 
in the pupa state, though the caterpillars may be collected in any quantity, but 
they are very difficult to YeaY.—Aster tripolium. Wallasea Vool.—Solidago 
virgaurea. Bidstone Stone-quarry and Tranmere Wood. This plant varies 
much in habit; at Bidstone it is short, shrubby, and the panicle of many flowers 
