Fowler : Lincolnshire Coast Plants. 



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About the sea-banks and sand-hills, Torilis nodosa., Daucus Carota, 

 Cardum nutans, and Orchis pp-amidalis occur plentifully, the last- 

 named plant apparently more vigorous on sandy than on limestone 

 soil, where it is usually found. 



Most of the plants on my list are probably to be found on all coasts 

 at all resembling that of Lincolnshire, but there are a few to which, 

 for one reason or another, it may be well to direct attention. 



Statice occidmtalis (Lloyd). Babington gives as its habitat " rocky 

 shores,'' but it seems to flourish, along with S. Limonmm (though much 

 more sparingly) on the muddy shores of Lincolnshire ; and Mr. Blow 

 informs me that in his experience it has not been at all confined to 

 " rocky shores." 



Blysmus rufus. Not apparently recorded before, except from the 

 northern and western coasts. It is plentiful enough about Hamber- 

 stone, and between there and Cleethorpes. 



Hippophae rliamnoides. Abuadant for several miles on the sand- 

 hills about Saltfleetby. 



Altliaa o^cinalis. Recorded in Topographical Botany for north 

 Lincoln, but not for south. I never saw it in north, where I have 

 lived for many years ; but last year, after I had crossed the Witham, 

 and made for the sea-shore, I saw it by ditch-sides in abundance. 



Bupleurum tenuissimum. Plentiful between Wainfleet and Boston, 

 at the foot of the sea-bank, but not noticed by me elsewhere. In 

 precisely similar situations south of the Witham I was unable to 

 find it. 



Cochlearia officinalis and C. anglica. Never observed by me north 

 of Wainfleet, though common enough on both sides of the Wash. 



Petroselinum sativum. Apparently well established in fields between 

 Wainfleet and Boston. 



Petroselinum segetum. A decidedly rare plant in Lincolnshire. 



It would not be without interest to follow these maritime and sub- 

 maritime plants along the banks of the rivers Humber and Trent (as 

 Dr. Parsons has followed them along the banks of the Ouse). Some 

 observations have been already made by me with this object in view, 

 and when I have completed them, I shall be glad to supplement this 

 paper by giving the results obtained. 



Liversedge Yicarage, 

 Yorkshire. 



