52 DAVY: LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS AT GIBRALTAR POINT. 
at home (Lincolnshire) I knew Yarrow by several names as 
“ Devil’s plaything,” “ bad-man’s plaything,” &c.’ 
Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum L.. 
Matricaria inodora L. 
Artemisia maritima ‘Linn.’ (sp.). 
Senecio vulgaris L. S. erucifolius lL. S. Jacobza L. 
Arctium minus Schk.! Locally believed to possess valuable 
medicinal properties. : 
Carduus nutans L. 
Cnicus lanceolatus Hoffm. C. arvensis Hoffm. 
Centaurea nigra L. 
Crepis virens L. 
Hieracium Pilosella L. On the sand-hills. 
Leontodon hirtus L. L. autumnalis L. 
Taraxacum officinale Web. Mr. Robinson has given me 
a recipe for making ‘ Dandelion wine’ from the flowers of this 
plant. My grandmother had a weakness for the fresh young 
leaves, which she ate as salad; I also remember being dosed 
with ‘Dandelion tea, made from the roots, for some childish 
ailment. 
Sonchus oleraceus L. S. arvensis L. 
Campanula rotundifolia L. 
Glaux maritima L. 
Samolus Valerandi L. (sp.). Drain-bank at Skegness. 
Cynoglossum officinale L. Very abundant on the sand-hills. 
Its hooked-spined nutlets adhere to the clothes with provoking 
tenacity. 
Myosotis palustris With. 
Convolvulus arvensis L. 
Solanum Dulcamara L. 
Solanum nigrum L. (sp.) and Hyoscyamus niger L. ! (sp-) 
growing together plentifully on the shingle at the Point; one 
specimen of the latter was 5 ft. high. Mr. Perrin, the proprietor 
of ‘Noah’s Ark,’ told us that Ayoscyamus had grown on that 
spot all the time he had lived there (21 years), some years in 
greater abundance than in others. Mrs. Perrin said that her 
grandmother used Hyescyamus seeds as a remedy for toothache, 
and that when the mouth was held over a jar of boiling water 
in which these seeds were steeped, the ‘ maggots’ (which caused — 
the toothache !) fell out. I saw this remedy applied once by 
