

PEACOCK: LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS AT MARKET RASEN. 1 3 



Very plentiful was the Marsh Pennywort or White-rot {Hydrocotyle 

 vulgaris L.), the round leaves of which completely hid its insig- 

 nificantly minute flowers. Many leaves of the Marsh Cinquefoil 

 (Potentilla comarum Nestl.) and of the Lily-of-the- Valley {Conval- 

 Iaria majalis L.) were seen, but it was too late for the blossoms of 



either. 



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wort {Achillea ptarmica L.), Gipsywort {Lycopus europceus L.), Wood- 

 sage {Teucrium scorodonia L.), Buckbean {Menyanthes trifoliata L.), 

 and Water-pepper {Polygonum hydropiper L.) were common. The 

 juice of the last is locally said to cure pimples on the tongue. 

 Other plants noted — merely to give the scientific name — w r ere : 

 Solidago Virgaurea L., Epilobium palustre L., Mentha sativa L., 

 Sagina apetala L., Cnicus pratensis Willd., Angelica sylvestris L., 

 Viola ericetorum Schrader (as I suppose we must call our old friend 

 V.flavicornis Sm. now), Rhavinus frangnla L., Drosera rotundifolia L., 

 with leaves covered with red viscid hairs ready to allure and entangle 

 small unsuspecting insects to their destruction. To these may be 

 added Filago minima Fr., Scleranthus annuus L., Lepigonum 

 rubru?n Fr., now generically called Buda, if we are all to follow the 

 new London Catalogue, Peplis portula L., Alisma ranunculoides L., 

 Rubus idceus L., R. affinis W. & N., R. snherectiis Anders., 

 R. leucostachys Sm., Hieracium tridentatum Fr., Hypericum 

 pulchrum L., Veronica scut el lata L., and its variety hirsuta Weber> 

 Cerastium glomeratum Thuill., Viburnum opulus L., Polygala 

 depressa Wend., Ornithopus perpusillus L., and Radiola linoides 

 Gmel, one of the smallest of British flowering plants. Among the 



sedges and grass-like plants Molinia carulea Mcench., Calamagrostis 

 epigeios Roth., Deschampsia flexuosa Trin., Glyceria aquatica Sm.,. 

 Scirpus ccespitosus L., S. setaceus L., Nardus stricta L., Carex 

 pulicaris L., C. stellulata Good., and Eriophorum angusiifolium Roth., 

 may be added. The best ferns found were Lastrcea oreop ten's Presl., 

 L. spinulosa Presl., Asplenium rlwticum Roth. 



To this already inordinately long list we must add a few first 

 records, rarities, and notes, taken from a Florida of the Market 

 Rasen l Circuit] by Mr. F. A. Lees, which he has kindly written 

 out since the Rasen meeting, from note-books kept during 

 the time of his residence. The whole will be added to 

 my Locality Register, to help in working out the relation of 

 our existing and extinct flora, as far as the latter is recorded, to the 

 geological strata of Lincolnshire, but, as referring to the neigh- 

 bourhood of the Union's excursion, a short selection cannot fail to 

 interest. The present writer's notes are added in parentheses. 

 Vasturtium siifolium Reichk, ditch near Moortop Farm, between 



Jan. 1896- 



