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SOME LINCOLNSHIRE RUBI. 
By Rev. Aveustin Ley, M.A. 
In October, ae the writer paid a brief visit to Lincoln,- and 
poor a portio of his time in visitin ng some of the woods and 
n lands niseeaih)b in short cycle rides from the city, with a 
view to sr dog re character of the bramble flora. Every- 
where he found an cted wealth of wii which, however, 
owing to the teas a his visit (the sea moreover, having 
been an early one), were in part ntrpongnisable and rae 
bei for collecting. This year an oppo 
ning to the ground, and he spent a pt in the county pe 
the height of the bramble season. The present short paper is the 
result. It is perhaps justified by the fact that Lineshanhits is to 
some extent virgin ground, so far as these plants are concerned, 
only seventeen species (excluding ambiguous names) having been 
previously recorded, so far as the writer knows. His thanks are 
ret ot ev. W. M. Rogers for much patient pre ores and 
me for an — 8? list of existing Lincoln 
writer’ In such i 
Ro, ogers 
In dealing with so large a rine the following list makes, of 
course, no pretensions to completeness; it constitutes, in fact, 
only a first list. Of the two Watsonian vice-counties of South 
and North Lincoln, the spots visited fell mainly within the rest 
The locality chi efly worked in South Lincoln was an extens' 
woodland near Skellingthorpe, called Old Wood. This is the 
h 
ote.—S. = South; N.=North. B. otanical Record 
Club es. * deno new record for the 
county or vice-county. Where no authority is quoted, the reco 
d on the writer of this paper; and where such 
record is. given, the record was made in August, 
ubus ideus L, South and North Lincoln, ee Bot. Abun-. 
dant throughout. 
R. fissus Lindl. _*8. Norton Disney, 1904; Old Wood, 
Skellingthorpe. N. Lees, B. R. C. Summary, 1878; Birehholt 
