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LINCOLNSHIRE MARSH AND WATER PLANTS. 



Rev. WILLIAM FOWLER, M.A., 

 Vicar of Liversedge \ Vice-President of tke Yorkshire Naturalists Utiiott. 



The plants included in the present paper are those which grow either 

 in the rivers, drains, marshes, or pools of the county, or on their banks. 

 By some (whose only idea of Lincolnshire is, that it is flat from end 

 to end, and full of drains) it may be thought that water-loving plants 

 may be found in almost every parish. This, however, is by no 

 means the case. Large portions of the county (the Chalk and OoHtic 

 and Liassic ranges of hills, for instance) are quite as little likely to 

 produce such plants, as the Gogmagog hills of Cambridgeshire, or 

 the Cleveland hills of Yorkshire. It is only in the low-lying districts, 

 of course, that marsh and water plants are found, such as the Isle of 

 Axholme ; the neighbourhood of the Foss Dyke near Lincoln ; the 

 belt of marsh land near the coast, as about Grimsby, Saltfleet, and 

 Skegness ; the valley of the river Witham between Lincoln and 

 Boston ; and the south-eastern corner of the county, as about Boston 

 Spalding, Deeping, and Holbeach. In the following list, as in former 

 ones, localities will -be given only for such plants as do not seem to 

 be universally distributed throughout the county, or, being so, are of 

 special interest. 



Thalictrum flavum. On banks of drains, specially in the south. 



Ranunculus circinatus, R. fluitans, R. trichophyllus, R. 

 Drouettii, R. peltatus, R. Baudotii (with var. marinus), 

 R. Flammula, are common or frequent. R. Lingua is less 

 so, but may be found near Saltfleet, Washingborough, and the 

 Foss Dyke near Lincoln. 



Caltha palustris. 



Nuphar luteum. Nocton Delph, and other drains. 

 Nymphaea alba. Nocton Delph; Tvvigmoor; pools on Scotton 

 Common. 



Nasturtium sylvestre. Trent banks ; Crowland. 

 Nasturtium palustre. 



Nasturtium amphibium. Foss Dyke ; near Haxey. 



Barbarea vulgaris, 

 j Barbarea stricta. Ditch bank near Corby ; Bank of the river 

 i Ancholme (Lees). 

 I Lychnis Flos-cuculi. 



1 Stellaria aquatica. Beckingham ; Foss Dyke. 



1 April iS88. 



