170 Broughton Woods. 
If we turn to botany for a moment, what other district within 
the Union's sphere of observation can compare with this area when 
the number and variety of some of the species its woods, quarries, 
commons, ponds, bogs, flashes, damp spots and ditches, are 
considered? If it wanted a new name we should properly call it 
Fowleria, for age may limit a man’s powers for field work, but 
no time the craving to know more of plants and their ways 
when it has once taken possession of the soul. The Canon of 
Liversedge with his sixty years of field work and graphic pen 
could alone do this department justice; a lesser knowledge can 
give but a barren and uninteresting summary. ‘The touch of life 
the master hand imparts is like the volatile ether in the wine—it 
makes it drinkable nectar, not grape juice in the raw. The 
species in this neighbourhood I have room to name are confined 
to two soils. The Lincolnshire Limestone with its two beds, and 
the moorland soils of blown sand and peat, or their mixtures 
Why the Hibaldstow Bed should be much richer than the Kirton 
Bed in rare species, is as yet an unsolved problem, but more of 
this anon. The glory of the early summer Anemone Pulsatilla 
still flourishes in a few isolated spots, while Aquilegia in three 
colours is a brilliant sight after fresh falls of woodland. Viola 
stagnina may now be gone, but wason the Peat at Manton with-. 
in the last twenty years. V. palustris is still plentiful if its lover 
knows where to look forit. It has a striking form here where it 
grows in long herbage which has not been recorded for any 
other spot. Saponaria officinalis and Silene noctiflova are both 
doubtful natives, but none the less interesting. Stellavia nemorum 
is the rarest of the rare good things—-I regret I have never found 
it. Hypericum montanum may still be taken in small quantities 
on both local beds of the Oolite. While Geranium sanguineum 
Oxalis acetosella, Rhamnus catharticus, Genista anglica, Astragalus 
danicus, A. glycyphyllos, along with Hippocrepts, and a lot of less 
conspicuities give variety to the collectors note book or vasculum. 
The genus Prunus is more fully represented than elsewhere ; 
Rubus has not yet been worked out on the new lines, which 
classes local forms and hybrids as good species, and still awaits 
some perhaps unborn rubiaster, of unapproached capacity in 
sub-division ; but R. saxatilis is locally plentiful with other good 
