350 LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS AT CLEETHORPES. 
occupy the fen land to the east of the Lincolnshire Wolds, while 
the chalky boulder clay is met with to the west, between the Wolds 
and the Oolite cliff. 
The Botanical report which follows was presented by the 
Rev. E. Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock, the Secretary of this section. 
There were also present Messrs. J. S. Sneath, B. Crow, T. R. 
Gelsthorpe, A. R. Yeoman, and the Rev. F. O. Oliver. Some good 
work done during the day both on the shore and inland. 
Perhaps the best find, all things considered, was Chara fragilis 
Desv., in one of the Humberstone ditches. But Diplotaxis muralis 
tetrandum Curt., were nearly all as good, if more likely to be 
generally observed. Lefigonum marginatum Kock. was the only 
species found, though two of the sa/inum forms—we cannot call 
them varieties—are common enough on some parts of the coast, 
and both species abound together at Leverton, along the Wash 
foreshore. The lilac-purple flowers of Statice occidentalis Lloyd, just 
opening brightened the damper mud-flats and pool sides, in happy 
contrast with the delicate shades of pink in the flower-head of 
Armeria maritima Willd. Eryngium maritimum 1. seems to be 
dying out before the ever-arriving: excursionists. It still manages 
to exist at Humberstone shorn of its pristine splendour, along with 
Convolvulus soldanella L., in a like, but more lovely, plight. Azrip/ex 
babingtonii Woods, was rare too. Trifolium scabrum 1. holds its 
place on the sea-bank, and from its inconspicuous habit is likely to 
remain. Potamogeton friesii Rupr. was found in the same drain 
with Aydrocharis, our best record, and a dozen other commoner 
water plants. We must not forget Festuca arenaria Osb. The 
specimens of this plant taken at Humberstone are quite typical, with 
extensively creeping rootstocks and long stolons, as befits a plant 
that would live among the loose, dry sand of the wind-tossed dunes 
of our sea-shores. One plant I fear will never again delight the 
eyes of the botanist at Cleethorpes, for the shingly-stony spot where 
it throve so well has been bodily removed in ‘improving’ the fishing 
village of our early recollection into its present state of attractive- 
ness, or else the whole place has been buried by the drifting sand. 
With this rough bit of ground, the natural haunt of the Ringed 
Plover—4gialitis hiaticula (L.)—the abiding place lene 
maritima With., passed away for ever. For the bird I cannot 
speak—for the plant I can. It was the only station from which 
we have specimens on the whole foreshore of the county as far aS 
is known. In conclusion, I must not forget to add that three weary 
‘Naturalist, 
