86 WOODRUFFE-PEACOCK: CATALOGUE OF LINCOLNSHIRE PLANTS. 
shelves everything of value for Zhe Plora of Lincolnshire, still to be 
My reason for publishing at the present time is to spread 
abroad a catalogue of what is wanting to make it complete. 
each season’s work has been verified, to keep Zhe Naturadist record 
up to date. As no labour, pains, or time have been spared to make 
these papers accurate and complete in every respect, will anyone 
who detects the slightest omission or slip communicate the fact to 
me at once, please ? 
Had our old contributor, Mr. J. Burtt Davy, been in England 
to make suggestions and add further information, his name, on 
account of the work he has done, would very properly have stood 
before mine as joint author. But unfortunately his ill-health and the 
great distance of California has prevented him seeing the manuscript, 
which therefore goes forth with my name only attached to it and on 
my sole responsibility, though so much of the first unanalysed 
draught was the result of the labour which broke down his health. 
Lincolnshire forms the whole East Trent Sub-province of the 
late H. C. Watson’s Topographical Botany distribution of our river 
basins. It is sub-divided into the Vice-counties North Lincoln 
54 and South Lincoln 53, which are quoted in these articles under 
the initial letters N. and S. in bold black type. They are separated 
from each other, with perfect clearness, by the river Witham from 
Boston to Lincoln, and by the Foss Dyke from that city to the 
border of Nottingham. 
When the plant names are printed in bold black type a Lincoln- 
shire proof specimen or specimens, localised and dated, is known to 
exist. A dagger (}) after any of these names signifies that one or 
more specimens are in the County Herbarium. If this sign follows 
a vice-county sign or parish name the plants are from the localities 
so indicated. The names in smaller type are those of recorded 
plants, but for which at present no proof specimen is known to exist. 
The number after the vice-county letters N. and S. refers to the 
number of parishes in each division where the plant has been 
recorded as growing, or has been seen or gathered. In some few 
cases the personal mark (!) of verification and date are added to 
show when I last saw them. By a District—generally contracted 
into Dist—I mean a radius of ten miles from the place named, by 
a neighbourhood—generally contracted neigh.—a radius of five miles. 
The dates appended are either those on the proof specimen, or of 
first publication, or the middle period of the life of a worker is given to 
the study of our plants. Dr. T. P. J. Grantham was at Burgh-in-the- 
“Naturalist, 
