LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS 

 AT SOMERCOTES AND SALTFLEETBY. 



Rev. EDWARD ADRIAN WOODRUFFE-PEACOCK, L.Th., F.L.S., F.G.S., 

 Vicar of Cadhey, Organising and Botanical Secretary, Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union. 



The twenty-first meeting- of the Union was held on Thursday, 

 8th June, at Somercotes and Saltfleetby on the Lincolnshire coast. 



Amongst those who were present were the late Mr. John 

 Cordeaux, M.B.O. U., Vice-President of the Union; Mr. E. 

 Kyme Cordeaux (Brackenborough Hall) ; Mr. F. M. Burton 

 (Gainsborough) ; Rev. W. Fowler (Liversedg'e) ; Rev. W. W. 

 Mason (Bootle) ; Rev. A. Thornley (South Leverton) ; Mr, J. S. 

 Sneath (Lincoln) ; Dr. Cassall (Ashby) ; Rev. E. A. Woodruffe- 

 Peacock, Hon. Organising- Secretary (Cadney) ; Mr. W. 

 Lewington (Market Rasen) ; Rev. T. Hill (North Somercotes) ; 

 Rev. S. Bateman and Miss Bateman (Yarborough) ; Rev. T. 

 Longley (Conisholme) ; Rev. H. Garrett (North Thoresby) ; 

 Rev. J. Conway Walter (Langton) ; Mr. F. W. Riggall and 

 Mr. A. Smith (Grimsby) ; Mr. T. Gelsthorp, Mr. R. Muir, 

 Mr. and Mrs. J. Larder, Miss Crow, Miss Lambden, Mr. G. H. 

 Kiddall, Mr. B. Crow, Mr. H. F. V. Falkner, Mr. H. D. Simpson, 

 Mr. V. T. Crow, and Mr. R. W. Goulding, Hon. Assist. 

 Secretary (Louth). 



The starting point was Louth Railway Station, and the drive 

 in carriages lay across the great Boulder Clay bed, which over- 

 lies the incline of the Chalk. This is locally called the ' Middle 

 Marsh' or 'Clays.' When this was left behind, the true Silt 

 Marsh, made from the denudation of the Boulder Clay, stretched 

 right up to the coast sandhills, which are nothing more than 

 the detritus of the frost-shattered flints derived directly from the 

 Boulder Clay, but originally from the Chalk. 



The day was dull, cold, and threatening-, but continued line. 

 About 220 species of plants were added to my register, thanks 

 to the energy of the Rev. W. W. Mason. The most interesting 

 were as follows : — 



Ranunculus circinatus. Saxifrage tridactylites. 



Ranunculus trichophyllus. Myriophyllum spicatum. 



Ranunculus Baudotii, found in both Apium inundatum. 



varieties, vulgaris and confusus. Galium elongatum,« 

 Sisymbrium sophia. Myosotis colli na. 



Cerastium semidecandrum. Myosotis versicolor. 



Trifolium scabrum. Lycium barbarum. 



1900 March 2. 



