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the words of the great Victorian (and Lincolnshire) poet are 



literally true: 



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There rolls the deep where grew the tree ; 



O earth, what changes hast thou seen ; 



There, where the long street roars, hath been 

 The stillness of the central sea I 



The hills are shadows, and they flow 

 From form to form, and nothing stands ; 



They melt like mists, the solid lands ; 

 Like clouds they shape themselves, and go ! 



The flora of this neighbourhood has been so fully studied by the 

 late Rev. Joseph Dodsworth, a splendid all-round naturalist, who 

 was over fifty years Vicar of Bourne, and a dozen other workers, 

 that the following short list comprises everything new to this 



divisi 



lsion : 



ifi 



van dissecta With., Edenhara ; Aspenda cynanchia L., Mentha 

 sativa L., Polygonum terrestre Leers, P. lapathifolinm L., Alnus 

 glutinosa Med., and the not uncommon hybrid between Cnicus 

 acanlis and arvensis. Of the good finds Atropa, an alien in 

 Lincolnshire, on the abandoned railway line at Edenham, and 

 in field hedge close by, and Euphorbia amygdaloides L., a true native 

 confined to Bourne and a few other woods in the extreme south of 

 the county, must be named. 



Fulfilling a promise made at Bourne, we publish the following 

 list, which contains all the extremely rare species noted by the 

 Rev. J. Dodsworth, which have not been recorded again since his 



^hbourhood: — Clematis vitalba at Morton, 

 Lepidium Smithii at Witham~on-the-Hill, Oxalis strkta at Bourne, 

 Veronica spicata at Bourne Abbey, Utricularia minor by Tunnel 

 Bank ditches, Stachys gennanica between Thurlby and Dickey 

 Wood, halfway up road north side, Galeopsis ochroleuca at Bourne, 

 Chenopodiimi urbiaim by Millbank and Well Head, Damosonium 

 siellaium m Eau and river Glen. To this list may be added two 

 species which want recovering : Cardamine amara, found by the 

 Weliand at Stamford and painted by the late G. W. Browning, who 

 died at the Cape; and Melampyrum crista turn at Witham-on-the- 

 Hill and Awnby. 



Mr. R. W. Goulding noted the Common Blue (Lyaena alexis), 

 the Wall (Pyrarge megara) r the Peacock ( Vanessa io) f and Silver- 

 washed Fritillary {Argynnis paphia) only, for butterflies were rare. 

 Of land shells Helix ericetorum was common at Scottlethorpe. 

 While Mr. Fieldsend reported that birds had been exceedingly 

 scarce, but his scanty list included the Redstart and Corn Buntin 



Oct. 18967 



