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The following synonymy sums up the above remarks: — 

 LiNUM ANGLicuM Mill. Dict. n. 5 (1768) ; Williams, Prodr. Fl. 



Brit. 483 (1912). 

 L. i^erenne L. Sp. PL 277 (1762), in part; L. Fl. Angl. 14 (1754) 



et auct. plur. Brit. 

 L. liisiKcnicum Mill, op.cit. n. 7 et Herb.! ex Planch, in Hook. 



Journ. Bot. vii. 174 (1848). 

 L. 'perenne var. decumbens T. Martyn in Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 9, 



n. 9 (1807). 

 L. perenne var. anglicum Planch. I. c. 

 LiNUM BiENNE Mill. Dict. n. 8 (1768) et herb. ! 



L. tenuifolmm L. Fl. Angl. 14 (1754), L. Amoen. Acad. 99 



(1759), non L. Sp. PL 278 (1752); Huds. Fl. Angl. 116 



(1762) ; With. Arr. 191 (1776). 

 L. angicstifolium Huds. Fl. Angl. ed. 2, 134 (1778) et auct. pi. 

 L. tenuifoliwn var. angustifolium With. Arr. ed. 3, ii. 317 



(1801). 

 L. hispanictmi Ind. Kew. ii. 92 (1894) ; Williams, Prodr. Fl. 



Brit. 485 (1912) ; non Mill. 



CHANGE OF CLIMATE and WOODLAND SUCCESSION. 



By the Rev. E. Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock, F.L.S. 



No thoughtful evolutionist will deny that our present flora 

 must be most intimately connected with that which existed in 

 prehistoric and historic times. Astronomically it is a simple 

 matter to say when, by the precession of the equinoxes, 

 the northern hemisphere would be enjoying its mildest cli- 

 matic conditions. Lord Avebury says {Prehistoric Times, p. 381) : 

 " Up to [1248] the duration of summer was increasing ; it 

 is now, and has been for 630 years, gradually diminishing. "''= 

 It would seem that the years 1080 to 1480 a.d. would be 

 those of specially warm weather, summer and winter. Now 

 Domesday Book, which was written in 1085-86, contains thirty- 

 eight entries of valuable vineyards of two to six acres each in 

 Lea valley ; there was another at Ware and one in Essex. In 

 later Norman times the Isle of Ely, surrounded by peat, was 

 called "the Isle of Vines." Places called "vineyards" — httle 

 strips of market garden — can be pointed out to-day. It would seem 

 that the planting of vines became " quite the thing " in the reign 

 of Stephen, about 1140. The Church, following her custom of 

 hospitality, responded nobly. Prior John, of Spalding, Lincoln- 

 shire, planted vineyards, in witness whereof there is a Vine Street 

 in that market-town to-day. The Abbot of Peterborough also 

 planted ; and Denary Abbey, Bury St. Edmunds, and the Priory 

 at Dunstable, all had vineyards. Most of the barons of that 

 period soon possessed vineyards. The hills of Godalming, in 

 Surrey, and the Hampshire Downs, were once covered with vines. 

 Kent had vineyards, too, for the hop had not yet reached this 



