BURGESS: RARER PLANTS OF SPILSBY. 327 
Cerastium arvense. Field Mouse-ear Chickweed. 1836. 
On the sand-banks south of Skegness. 
Arenaria peploides Smith. Sea Purslane. 1886. Between 
high-water mark and the sand-banks at Skegness. 
Arenaria rubra Smith. Purple Sandwort. 1879. Ina field 
near the sand-pits off Partney Road, Spilsby. Observed three 
or four seasons, 
Arenaria marina Roth. Sea Sandwort, 1888. On the mud 
flat near Gibraltar Point, at the north corner of the Wash. 
Common. 
Claytonia perfoliata. 1892. Extends the whole length ot 
a hedge-row in the parish of Hundleby. This rare plant has 
been under observation at least fifteen years, and was probably 
introduced in foreign corn. It now grows extensively and seems 
quite naturalised. A first record for North Lincolnshire. 
Hypericum humifusum. Trailing St. John’s Wort. 1880. 
On a bank at Hundleby. Observed three or four seasons, but 
now extinct. 
Malva moschata. Musk Mallow. 1886. Grows freely in 
a small plantation near the river at Sausthorpe. 
Geranium lucidum. Shining Crane’s-bill. 1886. At the 
root of an old tree in Mavis Enderby Churchyard. 
Erodium cicutarium. Hemlock Stork’s Bill. 1892. On 
a bank on the Hundleby Road, Spilsby, and apparently like 
specimens on the sand-hills near Gibraltar Point. Observed 
twelve or fifteen years. 
Oxalis Acetosella. Wood Sorrel. 1882. On a bank at 
Hundleby. Seen several years. 
_ _ Impatiens” iflora. Balsam. 1889. Ao rare plant, with 
small vellen oom growing on some waste land at East Keal. ee 
_Possibly an escape from cultivation. A first record. : 
oS : : Medicago sativa. Lucerne. 1889. On the border of a field 
at Old Bolingbroke. Most probably an escape. 
Trifolium arvense. Hare’s-foot Trefoil. T890. Ona hank 
at West Keal; also ina field at Hundleby. 
: - Vici a lathyroides. Spring Vetch. 1879. This rare little 
plant cropped up for a few seasons in two or three parts of the | 
district, but soon disappear red, so that a special journey of — 
= miles to the sea-bank at Wasa had to be undertaken oo 
to 2 pee) a — for aacanece ee 
Nov. 1893. 
