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A CRITICAL CATALOGUE OF LINCOLNSHIRE 



PLANTS : 



FROM ALL KNOWN SOURCES. 



Rev. E. ADRIAN WOODRUFFE-PEACOCK, L.Th., F.L.S., F.G.S., 



Vicar ofCaducy, Brigg ; Organising and Botanical Secretary of tJu Lincolnshire Naturalists* 



Union; Curator of the Lincolnshire County Herbarium, 



SEVENTH PAPER. 



See explanations given in the preceding papers. 

 Xa:., 1894, pp. S5-92, 133-140, 213-220, 257-264, 337-344- Nat -> tS 95, PP- 95'*o2, 280-301 



PRIMULACE.E (continued). 



Anagallis arvensis L.f Native. Recorded for all Divisions 

 except 4.6.9.18. 



Var. pallida Hooker. Native. Recorded for Divs. 2. 7.1 0.16. 

 Herb. Brit. Mus. 



Anagallis cserulea Schreb.t Native. Recorded for 2.4.5.7.8.9. 



1 1. 13.16. 'In addition to the blue variety, I have often found 

 specimens with pink, buff, and cream-coloured flowers.' 



J oh 



1867, p. 235. 4 In a dry 



stubble-field I found a specimen with pale lilac flowers.' — 

 Rev. E. R. Walker, by letter, 1895. 



Anagallis tenella L.t Native. Recorded for all Divs. except 

 3.8.11.12.14.17.18. 



Cextuxculus mi xl mus L. Native, if with us now. 

 Osgodby, once in a sandy lane near, 1877-79; F. A. 

 MS. Florida, in my possession. 



Samolus valerandi L.f Native. All Divs. except 2.4. 15. 18. 



OLEACE.E. 



Fraxinus excelsior Lf A more than doubtful native. All 



Divs., for it is universally planted as a hedge-row tree. 

 Self-seeding. Sir Joseph Banks says it is found under the peat 

 in our fens. See Journal of Science and Art, vol. 2, p, 244. 

 Abraham de la Pryme says, 'The ashes are as soft as earth/ 

 when dug out of the fens, ' and are commonly cut in pieces by 

 the workman's spades ; and when exposed to the open air fall 

 away into dust.' See PhiL Trans. r No. 275, p. 9 8 °- On the 

 other hand, the late W. Marshall says, ' The Ash I have never 

 found in carrs of Fens.' See Miller and Skertchly's The 

 inland, p. 294. My friend Mr. Alfred Atkinson, of Bri 

 engineer to the Ancholme Drainage Commission, has never met 



Feb. 1896. 



