Natural History. 83 



rare in this part of Lincolnshire, except when planted in 

 woods, but it was formerly much thought of as a charm 

 against witch-craft. Rev. E. G. Cole, in his Glossary of 

 Words in use in South-west Lincolnshire^ gives the following 

 example of its use : " There's heder wicken, and there's sheder 

 wicken, one has berries, and the t'other has none ; when you 

 thought you were overlooked, if the person was he you got a 

 piece of sheder wicken, if it was she you got heder wicken, 

 and made a T with it on the hob, and then they could do 

 nowt at you." 



Besides the wheelwright and his brother, all the other 

 members of the Natural History Society were successful in 

 contributing specimens to the district botany, with the result 

 above stated. White varieties of flowers frequently occur, 

 the most noteworthy being some pure white examples of 

 Scabiosa succisa in a meadow since ploughed up, and Ajuga 

 reptans^ observed to be persistent in the same place year after year. 



A small hayfield full of Saxifraga granulata is worth 

 mentioning ; also that Stratiotes abides introduced into a pond 

 took root and multiplied quickly. The latest addition is 

 Epipactis latifolia^ which has appeared within the last two 

 years, and the most conspicuous, a gigantic specimen of 

 Onopordoin Acanthium^ which, most appropriately, sprang up in 

 the wheelwright's new garden and attracted great attention. 

 It measured, when in flower, about six feet high, and must 

 have been quite three feet in circumference. With this 

 wonder of nature, I will conclude my paper. 



LINCOLNSHIRE.* 



By JOHN CORDEAUX, M.B.O.U., 



Great Cotes, R.S.O., Lincoln ; Convener of the British dissociation Committee on the 

 Migration of Birds. 



PART II. t 



THE geological strata of Lincolnshire extend in long 

 ribbon-like bands, which generally correspond to the 

 length of the county, running nearly north and south, 



* Reprinted from The Naturalist, 1886, p. I, by special permission, 

 f Lines. N.&S^ t "Nat. Hist." Section, 1897, p. 65. 



