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= Pickering, 2 23rd Ju 
200 | Notes —Botany and Geology. 
NOTE—BOTAN ¥; 
icinal Herbs wane near Pic kering.— The dalesmen of the North 
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names and principal active onnel ples. In each case the note was taken 
m personal observation, and entered in a book with the date and other? =~ 
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lg ulars. 
Bot. 
Name, Local Na Act. Pa 
hraea centaurium. Wace Sabeaaes: Exythrocentautin. 
Marrubium vulgare. Horehound. 
Achillea millefolium. Yarrow. pectin and Achilleic Acid. 
Nepeta glechoma. Ground Ivy. — 
Galium ong Hayrop. Galitannic Acid. 
Aconitum sp. Blue Peter. Aconitine. 
Meny ahs trifoliata. Bog Bean. oid anthin. 
: 3 Chelerythrin 
‘ ee ‘ saree. ee Chetidoxanthin. 
Chelidonium majus. Swallow Wort. Chelidor 
Chelidoninic Acid. 
Linum catharticum. { Moun tan Flax } — 
Digitalis purpurea. x Docken Digitalin. 
These few ay are mentioned mong many as being notable; but I 
e long to make a complete list. ae he ai COMBER, esl i 
befor 
23rd June 1808. 3 ne 
NOTES.—GEOLOGY. 
Large Glacial Boulder rt eat sat tena re.—A very ia rge 
boulder has been discovered lat s farm, Swaby, now se 
by Mr. Overton. The Louth Naturalists” Society took up. the matter, and, 
of Mr. Over s 
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they found they had unearthed out of the boulder clay probably one of the 
largest aap aes in this part of Lincolnshire. It i ch larger than the 
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note he Stone which used to stand at Me ercer Row corner at Louth, but | 
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is now r. Burditt’s yard. ere are no striations on it as farvas can 
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secure the preservation of such an inte resting relic of the past. 
that the site se sor nse ilson’s ira use, two miles from pete: 
alk from Swaby omen, He —BeEnj. Crow, Hon. 
1898. 
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eee Louth Meats’ Sosiety, Louth, 21st June 
Fossil Limpet at Pickering. shies Ww igley, of pignitlg brought 
to me last year two somewhat unusual specimens; they e the internal 
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men we 
casts of a = t, the Patella cg var., rg mere (vide Hudleston, — 
Geol. Mag., 1, pp- 125, 126, and pl. 4, fig. 5, where he says: ‘An imperfect 
‘Specimen fou the upper calcareous grit of Pickering may belong here, 
p- 126). ser cimens, which were very n rfect, were found 
calcareous grit 
tw arly perfect 
by Mr. Wiles i . of bay canarias on the New Bridge 
oad, and one of hen now ‘sont lasers British Museum.—C, T. T. Com 
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