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LINCOLNSHIRE LIMESTONE PLANTS. 



Rev. WILLIAM FOWLER, M.A., 



I'icar of Livcrsedgc, Vorkshiic ; }ice-P resident of the Yorkshire Naturalists^ Union. 



The plants included in the following list are those which grow on — 

 (i) The Chalk Wolds, between Barton-on-Humber and Burgh; 



(2) The Inferior Oolite, between Winteringham-on-the-Humber 



and Stamford ; 



(3) The Lias Limestones, between Whitton-on-the-Humber 



and Grantham. 

 The Chalk Wolds are less productive than other Chalk districts, for 

 two reasons — they are largely covered by Diluvial Drift, and are 

 in a high state of cultivation. 



The Lias Limestones, too, are throughout the greater part of 

 their length overlaid by sands and clays, so that the soil does not 

 consist of disintegrated Limestone, except in a few places. 



All the rarer plants are found on the Inferior Oolite, and 

 especially on its top bed, the Cornbrash, which is easily disintegrated 

 by atmospheric agencies, and then forms a light Limestone soil. 



A few Limestone plants are found on the Red Marls with 

 Gypsum (or Sulphate of Lime) which occur in the Isle of Axholme, 

 and these, as they are all found on the Limestone soils of the Chalk, 

 the Inferior Oolite, or the Lias, are marked with an asterisk in 

 this list, instead of being repeated as a separa/e one. 



Anemone Pulsatilla. Hypericum montanum. 



Broughton. Ancaster. Broughton Wood. 



Ranunculus parviflorus. • Malva moschata. 



l]ritten's list. 



Linum perenne. 



Aquilegia vulg-aris. Britten's list. 



Broutrhton. Near Alford. 



Geranium sanguineum. 



Berberis vulgaris. Broughton Wood. 



Arabis sagittata Geranium pratense. 



Reseda lutea. Geranium pyrenaicum. 

 *Reseda luteola. Harlaxton. 



■'Viola odorata. Euonymus europaeus. 



Viola hirta. Rhamnus catharticus. 



Viola Reichenbachiana. Ononis spinosa. 



Cerastium arvense, Trifolium procumbens. 



Hypericum hirsutum. Anthyllis Vulneraria. 



June 1800. 



