6 ' FOREWORD. 
I have to thank the Rev. W. W. Mason and Miss S. C. 
Stow for much topographical help, and for reading the proofs 
of this pamphlet for the press, and for correcting it by means of 
their specimens and notes. The same pleasing duty of paying a 
debt I owe to Messrs. A. Bennett, J. Britten, W. H. Beeby, 
F. A. Lees, as well as Canon W. Fowler, for endless critical 
and practical help of all kinds. 
In analysing a mass of manuscript such as I possess 
on the flora of Lincolnshire, I cannot expect that some 
mistakes have not been made. Each note is on a single sheet 
of paper, and for some species I have hundreds of such jottings, 
while the whole garnering has been scattered irregularly over a 
period of 35 years. I myself, too, am only a humble recorder of 
trifling every-day facts such as seem to escape the observation 
of other men. I regret I am only a specialist in environment, 
and not in any of the fluid genera. In the brambles, roses, 
and willows, an authority is badly wanted in Lincolnshire. 
I have, however, tried my best to give a clear summary of such 
specimens, printed matter, or notes, as others have left 
behind them or communicated to me. I can only ask to be 
excused where deficiencies are found, and plead that I have ever 
striven after accuracy. The occupations of an active and busy 
life make my work broken and irregular at best, though it is a 
labour of love. 
E, AprRIAN WooDRUFFE-PEACOCK. 
Cadney, Brigg, Lincs., 
October, 1909. 
