40 DAVY: LINCOLNSHIRE LIMESTONE PLANTS. 
Neottia Nidus-avis Rich. Tothill, September 1887 (Miss Susan 
Allett, identified by Mr. J. Eardley Mason). 
Epipactis media Fries. Aby, 4th August, 1890! (J. W. Chandler) ; 
this appears to be the first record of its occurrence in 
Lincolnshire. 
Ophrys apifera Huds. has grown for some years in one place in 
the parish of Ailby; our first record is ‘ Ailby, 3rd July, 1886 
(J. W. Chandler).’ Specimens were brought to me from this 
station on the 30th of June and 7th of July this year. 
Habenaria viridis R.Br. Tothill, 29th a 1888! (Miss Susan 
Allett). Ailby, 8th June, 1890! (J.B.D.). 
Habenaria chlorantha Bab. is sleatital at Well Vale on the 
Chalk, and at Ailby on the Boulder Clay ; our first record is for 
Ailby, 3rd July, 1886 (J. W. Chandler). 
Paris quadrifolia Linn. Aby, 9th May, 1890 (J.B.D.). 
Polystichum angulare Presl. Withern, 1887! (Miss Susan 
Allett). Recorded in ‘The Naturalist,’ April 1888, p. 102, as 
being new to North Lincolnshire. 
The oe records of Limestone plants do not relate to the 
Alford distric 
Spirza pte hole Linn. and Cnicus acaulis Hoffm. were 
pointed out to me by an Irish botanist (Mr. Thomas Chandlee 
of Ballytore, Co. Kildare), on the Ermine Street between 
Fulbeck Heath and Ancaster (South Lincolnshire), in July 1884. 
Salvia Verbenaca Linn. growing out of a wall at Bracebridge, 
Lincoln, 21st July, 1890 (J.B.D.) 
Daphne Laureola Linn., several specimens, and 
paragon Psecnpbencses Bab., plentiful, in a small wood at Gunby 
. Peter, on the Boulder Clay; 18th June, 1890 (J.B.D.). 
pc aeneve Ruta-muraria Linn. Church-yard wall, Burgh-le- 
Marsh, several tufts 19th September, 1889 (J.B.D.). 
caer Vitalba Linn. and Ruscus aculeatus Linn.] are 
ound in a small plantation known as Fanthorpe Lawn, about 
two miles from Louth. e latter—of which the female 
flowers are probably abortive, as I am told that, though 
flowering annually, it ever bears berries—grows in a patch 
about four feet square, under the shade of a stately yew. An old 
labourer told me that formerly the carriage-drive to Fanthorpe 
Hall passed close beside, if not through, the plantation, and the 
Clematis and uscus may have been planted, together with 
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