LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS AT WOODHALL SPA, Sui 
only say I hope, now that the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union 
is started and is likely to be a success, that this defect may be 
remedied, and I shall be glad to give any information in my power, 
as to the committee’s mode of working, to those who will interest 
themselves in the subject. 
The Botanical Section was officially represented by the Rev. W. 
Fowler, M.A., the President, and Rey. E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock, 
Secretary of the section, by the latter of whom the following 
account is written :— 
The Woodhall district has been so thoroughly worked, botanically, 
that nothing new is likely to turn up except ‘escapes,’ as Hypericum 
hircinum L.. and Campanula rapunculoides L. have done in the 
last few years. 
From sixty to seventy good things passed through the hands of 
_ the verifiers, from which the following list is selected :-— 
Lepidium campestre R.Br. Solidago virgaurea L. 
Lepidium smithii Hook Gnaphalium sylvaticum L 
Viola flavicornis Sm. Senecio sylvaticus L. 
Sa officinalis L. Hieracium umbellatum L. 
Drosera rotundifolia L. Hieracium re 
Drosera intermedia Hayne. Calamintha acinos Clairv. 
Epilobium macr m Leight. Galeopsis bifida Boenn. 
Epilobium parvifloram Schreb. Polygonum hydropiper L. 
Epilobium palustre Ei Alnus glutinosa Gaert. 
Circzea Iutetiana L. Narthecium ossifragum Huds. 
Pimpinella magna L. Juncus acutiflorus Ehrh. 
Valeriana sambucifolia icant 
The ponte plants, which certainly grow at Woodhall, were not 
ken :—Anagaillis pallida Hooker; Pedicularis sylvatica L., sp. in 
firmed. 
the County Herb. : Pinguicula vulgaris L., often con - 
After the meeting the Rev. J. C. Walter, of Woodhall Vicarage, ae 
presented his specimen of Silene guinguevulnera L. to the County — 
- ‘Herbarium. ‘It grew in a rough sandy field and has been 
_ “improved” away in making a lawn for the garden of the Victoria ee 
oodhall. 
a Hotel ; but fifty years ago it was met saaeegnise about: ‘és oo 
_. Mr. John Cordeaux, M.B.O.U., y rer he Vertebrate Te 
a tecticn, ‘and the Rev. J. Cc Walter, M A 
Wryneck, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, wild Turtle Dove, and 
 Hawfinch were common in the district, as also Snipe, Dabchicks, 
> Moorhens, Coots, and Wild Duck. The Black Game, which bred — : 
on the , is now extinct ; so is the Bittern. 
The I Buzzard and Hen-harrier are gone, but the Brown Owl and 
Night-jar are still common. The W Moodeoek Nereis here in the still . ae 
viv of the wild woodland. oe 
