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male nor female flowers : if on farther examination it should 

 prove to be dioicous, it may be a distinct species ; it is certainly 

 distinct from M. orthorhynchum, although belonging to the same 

 group. I have seen states of M. serratum, grooving in damp 

 situations, approach it very nearly in aspect. 



Yeadon, near Leeds. 



Note. — Since the above was written, I learn from a correspondent that IVIr. 

 ilitten ha.3, in a late number of your journal, arrived at nearly the same conclusions 

 expressed above. He thinks M. riparium dioicous, and a distinct species, so that 

 the original name m.ay again be appropriated for it. 



LTNCOLNSHIEE BOTANY. 



A few of the rarer Plants in the neighbourhood of Winterion, 

 Lincolnshire. By the E-ev. W. Fowler. 



Most people have a very misty idea of Lincolnshire. We 

 are all acquaiated with the reputed notion of our south-country 

 brethren, not many years ago, who laboured under the delusion 

 that it was one vast marsh, with here and there an island, peopled 

 by duck-shooting, web-footed inhabitants. In this enlightened 

 age we expect people to know more than this of the counties of 

 England, and yet I have met with those who thought we were 

 obliged to leave our ground-floor in rainy weather, and amuse 

 ourselves by shooting wild ducks out of the bedroom windows. 



Now I do not mean to call Lincolnshire a beautiful county, but 

 there are some pretty spots in it, if not for artists, at least for 

 botanists, a fact which I must now endeavour partially to prove. 



IMy operations have been chiefly confined to two districts ; one, 

 that about Winterton, in the extreme north (about two miles 

 south of the Humber), the other near Saltfleet, a decayed town 

 on the seacoast. On the present occasion I shall confine my- 

 self to the former, reserving the latter for a future number, if 

 the Editor thinks good. On looking over the later numbers of 

 the ' Phytologist,^ I do not see any accounts of Lincolnshire 

 plants, and therefore conclude that there are few (if any) readers 

 of our journal in that county. For this reason I shall not give 

 special localities, though I should be very glad to acquaint any 

 one with them who should wish it. A few words about the geo- 



