A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE W. Mason for a MS. list of flowering plants from all the three vice-counties. To Mr. C. Crossland for much help with fungi, and to Mr. J. A. Martindale for help with lichens. N.B. — The writer wishes it to be clearly understood that the com- monest of British flowering plants and mosses, including hepatics, are not enumerated. This was unavoidable. Explanation of Signs t signifies possibly introduced, * probably or cer- tainly introduced in the county, and + more than three stations known, ' r. r.' is an abreviation for ' very rare.' A fiiU stop after a locality signifies that the writer has gathered the plant there. Otherwise the name of finder is given. Class I.— PH^NOGAMIA Sub-class I. — Dicotyledones Order I. — Ranuncuhcea
- Clematis Vitalba, L. [59] 69. Limestone
fLK-ks near top of Tewbarrow-over- Grange, etc. ; J. G. Baker, W. Fog- gitt, F. Clowes Thalictrum dunense, Dumort. 69. Walncy, J. Lawson. Ray, Fascic, 1688. Ch. Bailey, 1872. Joum. of Bot. p. 61. 60. Lytham, Ashfield — minus, L. Aggrcg. ind. T. majus. 59 and 60. Top. Bot. 69. Linton and Miss Hodgson — coUinum, Wallr. 60. Dalton Crag, Sydney Wilson with Wheldon and A. Wilson. (6. 1 899.) This should be abundant on the limestone of 60 and 69, but Mr. Wheldon says it is not — majus, Crantz. 69. See Baker's Flora, 1885, p. 16, and Petty 's Consti- tuents Ranunculus circinatus, Sibth. 59. Canal near Ford; Wheldon. -|-. nr. Liverpool, Green's Fl. Little Crosby, Rev. W. W. Mason. 60. Canal nr. Lan- caster, Wheldon. 69. Nr. Hum- phrey Head ; H. T. Soppitt — fluitans, Lam. 59. ' Dugdale,' Top. Bot. 60. In Ribble; FL Stonyhurst — Drouetii, Godr. 59. F. M. Webb, MS. Top. Bot. Nr. Great Crosby; Green's FL Altcar ; Wheldon. 60. Top. Bot. Nr. Amside Tower, but in Lane; C. Bailey. Ponds at Win- marleigh; W. and W. (not typical, Groves) — heterophyllus, Web ex p. 59. Common ; Green's Fl. 60. Nr. Morecambe; Wheldon. 69. Urswick Tarn; Plumpton ; Miss Hodgson var. submersus (Hicm). 60. Between SilverdaU and Amside ; C. Bailey — peltatus, Schrunk. Aggreg. incl. flori- bundus, etc. 59. Top. Bot. F. M. Webb. Common, Green's Fl. Nr. Oldham; Whitehead, Wheldon. +. 60. Top. Bot. Hiern. + Class L— PH^NOGAMIA {continued) Sub-Class L — Dicotyledones {continued) Order I. — Ranunculacea (continued) Ranunculus diversifolius, H. C. Wats. 59. Ditches at Lydiate ; Wheldon — Baudotii, Godr. 59. Top. Bot. Nr. Old Formby Church; J. H. Lewis. 60. Hiern. Top. Bot. St. Anne's ; Pres- ton to Heysham Peninsula ; W. and W. var. confusus (Godr.). 69. In Winder- mere ; Hiern. Baker's Fl. — Lenormandi, F. Schultz. 59. Top. Bot. Goodlad, sp. Oldham ; Whitehead, Wheldon. Ashton Moss; White- legge. Liverpool district ; Green's FL 60. Hiern Hb. Top. Bot. O. IVyresdale; --. W. and W. 69. Coniston ; J. Backhouse, Junr. See Phytol. ii. 467 (1846) — Lingua, L. 59. Tudor MS. Top. Bot. Liverpool district ; Green's FL Little Crosby ; Hightown; Wheldon. 69. Hawkshead ; Derham, 1718. Baker's . ^'- + — auricomus, L. 59. Goodlad Hb. Top. Bot. Liverpool district ; Green's FL Reddish; Whitehead. Buxton's G. p. 74. 60. Simpson, sp. Top. Bot. Silverdale ; Pi.. Wilson. -|-. 69. Petty's Constit. -- — acer, L. var. tomophyllus (Jord). 60. Silverdale; -f- ; W. and W. var. Boreanus (Jord.). 59. 4-. 60. +. Wheldon var. rectus, Bor. 60. Caton ; + ; W. and W. — sardous, Crantz. 59. Top. Bot. Liverpool distr. ; Green's Fl. Nr. Leigh ; Buxton's G. 60. Boswell ms. Top. Bot. 69. Barrow ; J. Henry, -)- ; Petty's Constit. — parviflorus, L. 59. Top. Bot. Crosby ; Bootle ; Withering. No modern record Caltha palustris, L. var. minor, Syme. [59. Speke; T. Gibson. Green's Fl.'] 60. Grave IPs dough; Tambrook Fell; W. and W. 69. Seathwaite Tarn ; Walna Scar ; Miss Hodgson Trollius europaeus, L. In most places of Yorbhire and Lancashire. Gerard, Herball, 1597, p. 809, and first as British. 59. Goodlad Hb., Top. Bot. Thomham ; Pilstoorth ; R. Bux- ton in Whitehead's FL About Bol- ton ; Buxton's G. p. 75. 60. -f-. A. Wilson. 69. Plentifiil, frequently reported since 1 796 42
