CHRYSANTHEMUM Segetum. Yellow Ox-eye. Corn-marigold. 449 ANTHEMIS Cotula. Stinking Mayweed, or Chamomile. 458 Order III. POLYGAMIA FRUSTRANEA, CENTAUREA nigra. Black Knapweed. 465 Cyanus. Corn Blue-bottle. 466 Scabiosa. Greater Knapweed. 467 CLASS XX. GYNANDRIA. Order I. MONANDRIA. ORCHIS bifolia. Butterfly Orchis. Fl. Br. 918 NEOTTIA spiralis. Ophrys spiralis. Spiral Ophry s. Ladies Traces. 934 LISTERA ovata. Ophrys ovata. Common Twayblade. 932 EPIPACTIS latifolia. Serapias latifolia. Broad leaved Helleborine. 942 simplex. Unbranched Upright Bur-reed. 962 CAREX dioica. Common Separate headed Carex. 963 ALNUS glutinosa. Betula Alnus. Common Alder. 1013 CERATOPHYLLUM demersum. Common Hornwort. 1020 1021 Order III. TETRANDRIA. MYRICA Gale. Sweet Gale. Dutch Myrtle. 1076 Order IV. PENTANDRIA. HUMULUS Lupulus. Hop. 1077 Order VII. ENNEANDRIA. MERCURIALIS perennis. Perennial Mercury. 1083 CLASS XXIII. ATRIPLEX patula. POLYGAMIA. Order I. MONOECIA. Spreading Halberd-leaved Orache. 1091 CLASS XXIV. CRYPTOGAMIA. Order I. FILICES. EQUISETUM palustre. Marsh Horse-tail. 1103 BOTRYCHIUM Lunaria. Osmunda Lunaria. Common Moonwort. 1107 OSMUNDA regalis. Royal Moonwort. Osmund Royal. 1108 LYCOPODIUM Selaginoides. Prickly Club-moss. 1109 Additional Remarks, &c. In the north-west corner of ORMSKIRK CHURCH, there is a beautiful marble FONT,-" The gift of the Rev. William Knowles, M. A. Vicar of Ormskirk 1773:" which I had omitted noticing. A grave-stone, also, has been accidentally overlooked, the inscription on which is quite unique. Here lyeth the body of ALICE SPENCER who departed this life 27 September 1793. I worked for you many years I allways study'd for the best And now am gone to take my rest. Southport. "Houses soon began to multiply &c."-p. 59. I shall regret to learn that there is any error, either in the dates of the erections, or in the order of the names of the residents, having stated both as accurately as the information obtained would allow me. Mr. E. H. WALKER, of Row-Lane Academy, intends to publish a MAP of SOUTHPORT. The drawing of the plan is already finished, and appears to me to be extremely correct. A CLOCK at the CHURCH, is very much wanted. There are few residents, or visitors, I conceive, who would not cheerfully contribute something towards procuring one. Esle of Man. "Some persons deny the possibility of seeing the Isle of Man,-Others are of a contrary opinion"-p. 80. According to Tables accurately calculated,* a mountain must be at least 3700 feet above the level of the sea, to be seen at 70 miles distance; and Snowfield being only 2000 feet above the level of the sea cannot, therefore, be visible from Southport. They who argue thus, forget that in making these calculations the effect of Refraction is not taken into consideration, by which, objects are seen at a much greater distance at one time than another. In the "VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY to the "ARCTIC REGIONS," by "CAPTAIN JOHN Ross, R. N."-we find the following remarks on this subject. "In the absence of these fogs, we had sometimes the atmosphere most beautifully clear; the objects on the horizon were often most wonderfully raised by the powers of refraction, while others at a short distance from them, were as much sunk. We were often able to see land at an immense distance, and we have certain proof that the power of vision was extended beyond one hundred and fifty miles; I made many observations with my sextant on the phenomena just described, and often found the same object increase in its altitude half a degree in the course of a few minutes. The high rock off Cape Dudley Digges, was observed to increase in altitude from 2o. to 5o. within an hour; and in the course of the next half hour it decreased to the appearance of a speck on the water, and soon after it became like a long *NORIE'S NAVIGATION. Table XX. p. 91. London. 8th Ed. 1825, |