232 fowler: Presidential Address to Lincs. Naturalists’ Union. 
But I must now hasten to give some idea of the richness 
of our flora. Through drainage and cultivation we have, I ait 
fear, altogether lost Drosera anglica, Cicuta vtrosa, Peucedanum : 
palustre, Senecto paludosus, S. palustris, Statice reticulata, Carex 
filtiformis, and Lycopodium alpinum, and are on the way to losing — a 
other rarities, such as Lathyrus palustris, Selinum Carvifolia, 
Senecio campestris, Andromeda polifolia, Lysimachia thyrsiflora, 
Melampyrum cristatum, Tris fetidissima, Maianthemum Conval- 
larta, Acorus Calamus, Lastrea Thelypteris, Osmunda regalis,— 
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these works must needs go on, we shall have to reconcile our- 
selves to the loss of some of our rarest plants from time to time. ss 
But, though some plants which once occurred in the county are ~ 
extinct, and some others seem not unlikely to become so, we 
can yet produce a list of species, which, though by no means 
common, are likely to continue with us and those who ceme 
after us. It would be tedious (at least to those who are not 
botanists) to enumerate all species occurring in the county, 
many of which are universally distributed. I shall therefore ; 
content myself with giving a list of those which, having only — 
a limited distribution in Britain, are of special interest. Ta ing 
into consideration the fact that, as a rule, none but lowland i 
species can. be expected to occur in Lincolnshire, we have, 
I think, a fair share of uncommon plants, in addition to the very 
rare ones already mentioned. No flora can well be considered 
an uninteresting one, which contains such species as the follow- 
ing, to say nothing of many others, which (owing to their wide, 
if not universal, distribution in Britain) I shall not include. 
Thalictrum dunense. Stella nemorum. 
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Geranium rotunelfotiven, 
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Stell aria aquatica. 
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