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LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS IN THE 
GAINSBOROUGH NEIGHBOURHOOD. 
ADRIAN WOODRUFFE-PEACOCK, L.Th., F.L.S., F.G.5 
Rev. E. ADRI ” 
Vicar of Cadney, Brigg; General and Botanical Secretary Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union, 
and Curator of Lincolnshire County Herbarium. 
smallest June meeting ever held was the result. The 8th was wet 
from morning till night and the gth till 1 p.m., when the clouds 
floated away and the weather continued fine for weeks. That 
afternoon found four enthusiastic workers in the field —Messrs. 
F. M. Burton, W. Fowler, J. Gurnhill and the writer. Lea parish 
in Div. 6 was the locality chosen. The ground was very wet if the 
air was balmy, and little or nothing rewarded their diligent search 
of woods, fields, lanes, and fenland ditches. Sisymbrium Thalianum 
J. Gay, in a poor seed field, closely eaten by sheep, was rather an 
unexpected find, though the species is not uncommon. Avena 
pubescens Huds. was the best grass taken, a species often looked 
over apparently. The common species of the county were in 
profusion and.were noted for the northern part of this Div, 6, but 
the day was a failure as regards new OF good records. 
On Thursday, the roth, some thirty naturalists came together to 
visit the richest botanical ground in the country, Scotton Common 
and Laughton Warren, in Div. 5- These have been famous natural 
history hunting grounds in every department for over a hundred 
years. The dry seasons of the last decade have shorn these wild 
spots of some of their rarer floral treasures, but otherwise they 
remain pretty much as they were since they were partly planted some 
sixty years ago. 
Mr. F. M. Burton, F.L.S., F.G.S., writes on the geology :— 
Starting from Gainsborough on the Keuper beds of the Triassic 
rocks at the top of the primary series, we continued on that 
there. Thence continuing,’ from Blyton village, for some distance 
on the Rhcetic strata—a narrow band of which runs Up the west 
side of Scotton Common, and skirts Hardwick Hill at the northern 
_ €nd—we got on to the base beds of the Lower Lias, which formation 
borders the Rhcetics on the east, and which, between Blyton and 
Laughton, is covered by boulder clay; and, on the Common, by 
blown sand 
Aug. v897, 
