RARE LINCOLNSHIRE PLANTS. 
BY 
REV. E. ADRIAN WOODRUFFE-PEACOCK, F.L.S. 
Cyclamen Hedereefolium, (Ait.) 
This species can only be a planted or escaped alien with us. 
The records for it are as follows :—John Gerarde’s Herbal, 1597, 
‘It is reported to me by men of good credit that Cyclamen, or 
Sowbread, groweth . . . . on the hills of Lincolnshire.’ 
Thomas Jchnson’s edition of Gerarde’s Herbal, 1633, reprints this 
‘statement, but he adds, very properly, ‘I cannot learn that this 
(species) grows wild in England.’ 
My other records are ;—Mausoleum Woods, Brocklesby, 1860, 
W. H. Flowers. The same place, 1879, William Cook. He took 
a root into his garden, and the County Herbarium specimens were 
rom thatroot. Thesame place, 1882, Mr. Marshall, of Brocklesby. 
The same again, 1886, Mr. Harrison, of Ulceby. In every one of 
Thave heard, but have no proof, that this species has been taken 
“asa wild plant ” at Bonby; but I have no confirmation of the 
_ The Cyclamen is not a native of England. Professional 
gardeners tell me, it can resist our greatest frosts provided the 
le tuber is covered with soils, and the ground porous, so as to 
give rapid drainage. ‘The Lincolnshire plants I have seen are all 
the variety ficaviifolium, Syme. The soil it was lately found on 
Jandy Glacial Gravel. It looks as if the species had been at some 
either (1) purposely planted for ornament, (2) or introduced 
accident with trees, or (3), that it isa remnant of the 16th century 
oduction of this species as swine’s food. Such evidence as we 
have seems to point to the last supposition as the most likely. It 
is Mr, F. A. Lee’s suggestion. 
