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A CRITICAL CATALOGUE OF LINCOLNSHIRE 
PLANTS: 
FROM ALL KNOWN SOURCES. 
Rev. E. ADRIAN WOODRUFFE-PEACOCK, 
Vicar of Cadney, Brigg; Botanical Secretary of the siesta Naturalists’ Union; 
Curator of the Lincolnshire County Herbart 
FIRST PAPER. 
Tis series of papers on the Flora of Lincolnshire will contain a full 
and critical list of our native plants, escapes, and casuals, from all 
sources known to me, my friends, and correspondents. They will be 
a digest of my Locality Register, which itself is an analysis of every 
published list, manuscript, and public and private collection of 
Lincolnshire plants known to me—with the exception of the 
Herbaria of Kew and the British Museum, which, from lack of 
opportunity, have only been examined for specially interesting species. 
Had the thousands of pages of manuscript and letters collected 
by Mr. J. Burtt Davy and myself been analysed before Mr. F. A. Lees 
was compelled to go to press with his Outline Flora of Lincolnshire, 
in the 5th ed. of White’s Gazetteer, these articles would never have 
been penned; for then that admirable little sketch would have 
clearly and fully imaged all that is known of our botany. As 
a matter of fact it falls short of our present standard of information 
in some respects through no fault of its learned author, who did 
more than his best with the information at command in the limited 
time at his disposal. 
I am greatly indebted for the fulness of this list to scores of 
correspondents, who shall be thanked by name in the proper place. 
Here I wish more especially to make an acknowledgment of many 
invaluable services received from Mr. J. Burtt Davy, Mr. Arthur 
Bennett, Mr. F. A. Lees, and the Rev. William Fowler, who have 
repeatedly given me all the help in their power. The initials of 
all these gentlemen will be found in brackets where they have 
verified published localities and specimens for me 
At present (i.e., December 1893) the Zocadity Register contains 
about 50,000 old ac new records, the latter representing specimens 
mostly in private hands ; and Zhe County Herbarium, a public collec 
tion finally to be housed in Lincoln, contains between 3,000 and 4,000 
Proof and type specimens. I am engaged daily in collecting for its 
March 1894, 
