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BOTANY AND OUTLINE FLORA OF 
LINCOLNSHIRE. 
Botany and Outline Flora of Lincolnshire. By F. ArNoLp Lees, 
M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P, Lond. 
By all botanists, but especially by those of Lincolnshire, the above 
Outline Flora will be gladly welcomed, coming as it does, from the 
pen of one who has for several years been editor of the Botanical 
Locality Record Club Reports. After a short introduction, showing 
how the soils and position of Lincolnshire cause it to be a meeting- 
ground of diverse species, and giving interesting particulars of the 
Flora past and present, a list of works containing references to 
Lincolnshire follows (beginning with a.p. 1596), and also 
Herbaria consulted and quoted ; so that the student can trace back 
references for himself, and know where to look for further information 
than can be given in the Outline Flora, which occupies 22 of the 29 
pages of which the paper consists. Here we have every species 
nown to exist in Lincolnshire, in the sequence and according to 
the nomenclature of the London Catalogue of Plants, 8th Edition, 
1886, those not indigenous or doubtfully indigenous, being marked 
as such. In the second column the year of first record is given ; 
in the third, the authority; and in the fourth, the occurrence in 
North or South Lincolnshire, or both, thus : 
Inula helentum* 1688. Plukenet MS. (1834 Bailey), N. 
To the list of Phanerogams, Vascular Cryptogams, and Mosses, no 
very numerous additions will probably now be made, but to those of 
Hepatic, Lichens, Fungi, and Algz, additional species will be 
quickly added, as students and observers of these lower plants 
increase. In this ‘Outline Flora’ we have at once a careful record 
of what has been already done, and a strong stimulus to further 
exertion. If we mistake not, Lincolnshire botany will soon reach a 
point at which a Flora of the county may be written, containing 
a large amount of interesting matter, which could not possibly be 
given in the comparatively short space allowed to the author, by 
the editor of the work in which the ‘Outline Flora’ appears. We 
notice two or three printer's errors, and in so long a list others as to 
matter of fact, will doubtless be found, in spite of all the care which 
has evidently been expended on it, but it is far ahead of any previous 
list, and the mark ! appended to a very large number of the species 
(showing that the author has seen the so-marked species growing 1n 
the county), makes it far more valuable than any list can be, which 
is merely a compilation of records, many of which may be, and often 
are, incorrect, and therefore misleading. Altogether, the ‘ Outline 
Flora’ is a contribution to the botany of Lincolnshire, for which all 
Dec, 1802. 
