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also showed two Aforia cvategi (Black veined White), taken by 
himself in White’s Wood Lane, Gainsborough, very many years 
ago. 
The members were pleased to have the attendance of veteran — 
collectors—Canon William Fowler and Mr. F. M. Burton—who 
gave interesting accounts of their finds fifty years ago. 
The Rev. E. Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock reports on the 
flora as follows:—Though called Morton Carr Wood on the 
tongues of men and on old maps, the wood visited by the Union 
isin Blyton parish. The soil is Blown Sand. The whole vegeta- 
tion has been most seriously injured by rabbit. Beeches of 50 
years’ growth showed by unmistakable marks what terrible 
neighbours hungry rabbits are when snow lies thick on the 
ground. Not once only, but periodically from the period of 
planting, the trees had been attacked, and many had been 
destroyed. It would almost seem the greater part of this wood- 
land was killed off by rabbits, judging of their influence by 
marks left on the living trees, and by the rest of the flora. The 
lane tothe west of the wood was where the late Rev. J. K. Miller, of 
_ Walkeringham, took Pyvola. Though the exact spot is known, 
-—and this is the second time this species has been most 
thoroughly hunted for—it is no longer to be found. No doubt 
_ the rabbits have accounted for it, for the flora of the whole lane 
is suggestive of constant cropping by these prolific animals. 
_ The Botanical Secretary spent the whole day there studying it, 
as it is so little understood, except by foresters. Sagina pro- 
cumbens, Rumex acetoselia and Senecio jacobea, were the pre- 
dominant species. Luzula multiflora, Myosotis collina, Cevastium 
_ semidecandrum, Viola viviniana, Agrostis vulgaris, Holcus mollis, 
Galium saxatile, Aiva precox, Nardus stricta, Alchemilla arvensis, and 
_ Veronica arvensis, V. minima, (the rabbit-eaten form) were common 
_by the road side. While Lysimachia vulgaris, Evodium vulgatum, 
Veronica chamedrys, V. serphilifolia and V. officinalis were rare. 
On the horse track were found Uvrtica uvens, Polygonum hydvopiper, 
Lycopsis, Prunella, Cevastium glomevatum, C. triviale, Myosotis versicolor, 
_M. arvensis, and Capsella. The most curious example of rabbit 
environment was Anthviscus vulgaris, which here were perfect 
