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Menyanthes trifoliata L. 

 Utrictilaria vulgaris L. 

 Scutellaria minor Huds. 

 Rumex maritime L. 

 Myrica gale L. 

 Narthecium ossil'-asuni Hiids. 



Juncus conglomerahis L. 

 Juncus inflexus L. 

 Butomus timbellatus L. 

 Potantogeton polygonifolius Pourr. 

 Equisetum palustre L. 

 r>ryopteris spinulosa Kiintze. 



He adds taat many of these plants are still to be found, 

 some below Frodingham Cutting, as Gentiana, Parnassia, Buto- 

 mus, Pimpinella major, but the majority on the sandy land east 

 of the cutting. Lycopodium alyinum and L. davatum were both 

 growing on the escarpment above the warren in 1854, where a 

 wood was planted many years ago, north of the site of the 

 ' neolithic remains.' Is it possible that they still lurk in some 

 out-of-the-way corner, or are they lost to Lincolnshire, like 

 other species, victims to cultivation ? 



I have not used the terms ' Dysgeogenous,' ' Eugeogenous,' 

 ' Xerophilous,' ' Hygrophilous,' etc., lest any of your readers 

 should take them for diseases, which the plants included under 

 them were ' good against ' ; and to any who are not ' up-to- 

 date ' in botanical nomenclature, I would sa}^ that Galium 

 hercynicum, Oxycoccus quadripetalus, and Sieglingia decumhens, 

 are only our old friends, Galium saxatile, Vaccinium Oxycoccus, 

 and Triodia decumhens, in an older or newer dress. A few very 

 common plants are not included in the above lists, as not being 

 specially characteristic. Some have gone since 1854, and 

 others have taken their place ; and, as the author of Ecclesiastes 

 says, ' the thing that hath been it is that which shall be.' In 

 another fifty-six years, there will be more and greater changes 

 than in the last to be chronicled by the botanists who shall 

 come after us.' 



Mycology. — Mr. Crossland writes : — Mr. W. N. Cheesman 

 and the writer spent a very pleasant time in Soke Nook Wood, 

 whither they were conducted early on, by the leader of the 

 botany section. All the time at our disposal was spent in this 

 comparatively small wood, and on the sand hills above. Scots 

 fir and larch are the principal trees. There are a few scattered 

 oaks. The best finds were three or four specimens of Hydnum 

 auriscalpium on decaying cones of Pinus sylvestris. One of the 

 prettiest sights was a little forest of Mycena sanguinolenta, 

 with their fibrillose bases growing on a rotting fir cone — a 

 picture neither of us remember having seen before. Another 

 uncommon find was a pair of Volvaria parvula growing from 

 the sand on the hill among the rabbit burrows. In the same 



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