136 WOODRUFFE-PEACOCK : CATALOGUE OF LINCOLNSHIRE I 
Viola Riviniana x ericetorum.+ Divs. 2.5.7.13. 
Viola ericetorum Schrader.+ Native. Divs. 1.2.5-8.10.1 
Viola ericetorum x stagnina.j Native. Div. 13. § 
thorpe, 1896; Miss Rosa J. Owston (Ar. B.). 
Viola stagnina Kitt Native. Divs. 2.13(4). First bro 
‘public notice by Dr. John Nicholson, of Lincoln, wl 
a specimen to Sir W. J. Hooker. He recorded it 
Annals of Nat. Hist., 1839, p. 383, remarking :—‘ Fe 
Boultham Lane on both sides of the road. In habit so 
figure 445 of the 1st ed. of the Z. ZB. (i.e. 176 of | 
£. B.) that it might be taken for a distinct species. E 
the base the stems are quite erect, and many of the specif 
from a foot to eighteen inches high, with the leaves a 
peduncles very remote from each other, and many 
flowers apetalous. Reichenbach’s Jon. Bot., t. 9% 
admirably represents this variety, only that the latter 1s 
smaller, not above a span high. Its flowers are very P 
almost milk-coloured, otherwise it is hardly to be dis 
_ from some states of V. montana L.’ He calls it Z 
The late Professor C. C. Babington, Bot. Gaz., 185 
says ‘V. stagnina, Lincoln, Dr. Nicholson. Verified 
Dr. John Lowe, Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinb., 1856, p. 13, ™ 
again as V. /actea. But he wrote to me’ in 1894 a 
Top. Bot. at Herb. Brit. Mus. says :—‘V. montana and 
near V. lactea.’ The late J. T. Syme, no doubt after 
is also the carefully-considered opinion of such autl 
Mr. W. H. Beeby and Mr. Arthur Bennett. This sp 
grown or is growing on Manton Common in Div. 
+ 
Boultham, Skellingthorpe, Potterhanworth, and Bri 
Vv 
iv. 13. 
FRANKENIA L&VIS LL. For this species the records até 
found at Tid-Goat, in the Isle of Ely, by 
a Th Martyn’s Plante Cantab., 1763, p. 8. T. Lyons: 
Plant. 1763, p. 32. A. R. Relham’s Hora Cantaly 
