i4 peacock: Lincolnshire naturalists at market rasen. 



Oswersby and Usselby ; Cardamine flexuosa With, (an unaccountably 

 rare species, or one often passed over) ; Cerastium semidecandrum L., 

 I find no note of having gathered this species, and yet I seem to 

 recollect it in plenty in sandy ground in spring about Hamilton Hill 

 and Legsby ; Stellaria nemorum L., damp woods at Tealby (it is 

 one of our very rarest plants) ; Medicago denticulata Willd., a flour- 

 mill refuse casual {the variety apiculata Willd., has turned up as 

 a garden casual at Hovvsham this season); Cotyledon umbilicus L., 

 one place, Tealby, an old mossy wall — possibly planted; Drosera 

 intermedia Hayne, apparently not there in 1895 ; (Enanthe crocata L., 

 wooded swamp, Willingham (very rare) ; Cnicus palustris 

 x pratensis, the hybrid, Linwood Warren, 1878 — only one plant; 

 Vaccinium oxycoccus L., Linwood, very little in 1877 — not found in 

 1895 ; Centunculus minimus L., once in Sandy Lane, near Osgodby ; 

 Cu scuta epithymum Musr., Nova Scotia Common, near Osgodby ; 

 Digitalis purpurea L., Hamilton Hill and Willingham vicinages ; 

 Pinguicola vulgaris L., looked for but never seen even on Linwood 

 Warren in 1877-79 — (the italics are Mr. F. A. Lees' and not mine 

 It shows that the most carefully kept note-books and best memories 

 fail at times, for I have absolute proof in his handwriting that he did 

 find it there, and I know that it is found at Claxby, a little to the 

 north); Mentha officinalis Hull, Holton-le-Moor, and AL rubra Sm.? 

 A tail red stemmed mint used to grow in the Rase in several places, 

 but I did not know the mints in 1877-79, and so cannot be positive 

 about it (I have specimens of both from .S., verified by Mr. Arthur 

 Bennett); Euphorbia platyphyllos L., sandy oat-field once, near 

 Middle Rasen (an alien, I fear); Elodea canadensis Mich., this 

 attained its maximum of commonness in 1870; it seems dying out 

 again over large areas now. None of the Orchidecz are much in 

 evidence on the Kimmeridge Clay and blown sand about Rasen ; 

 Eriophorum vaginatum L., in small quantity on the drier parts of 

 Osgodby Common, near Usselby Corner, 1878. (With this splendid 



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to appear in their place in the Critical Catalogue in due course). 



The 



the Entomological Section :— The end of August is rather too late in 



occur 



weeks later would be an undoubtedly better time for collecting larvae. 



Legsby 



and 



years 



(among the macros, at any rate) were turned up on our field-day. 

 Eleven species of Diurni (Butterflies) were observed, including 



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