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A CRITICAL CATALOGUE OF LINCOLNSHIRE PLANTS : 



FROM ALL KNOWN SOURCES. 



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

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



FOURTEENTH PAPER. 



See 'The Naturalist,' 1894-1897, for other papers of this series. 



This paper once again brings the floral work in the county of 

 Lincoln up to date as far as it is at present known. N. Lines. 54 

 contains Divisions 1-12, S. Lines. 53 Divisions 13-18. Unless 

 another herbarium is named, or there is a note that no specimen 

 is known, there is a specimen or selection in the Lincolnshire 

 County Herbarium. Again I have to thank Messrs. Arthur 

 Bennett, F. A. Lees, and E. G. Baker for much invaluable 

 critical help in naming species and varieties, and my many 

 fellow-workers for their untiring efforts in sending in notes and 

 specimens, especially Miss S. C. Stow and the Revs. W. Fowler 

 and W. W. Mason. As this latter gentleman and I are hoping 

 to go to press with a Flora soon, this series in ' The Naturalist' 

 is likely to be suspended for some time. I much regret that the 

 result of three years' hard work on the part of many workers in 

 this large county should be so unsatisfactory — a record of so 

 few native species, varieties, and hybrids, and so many doubtfuls 

 and aliens. It clearly proves that the early labourers in the 

 field of topographical botany worked right well, and that there' 

 is little hope that many more native species remain to be dis- 

 covered, though much detail work requires doing. 



I ought to add here that our rarer sand and peaty sand 

 common plants are the most unsatisfactory natives we have. 

 It is often almost impossible to prove that they are truly native. 

 I hey surfer so much from gales of wind burying them or bodily 

 blowing away the hills on which they grow. Once between 

 Ashby and Scunthorpe, but near the latter place, on a wind- 

 gathered sand common, which was never fully grassed over in 

 my memory, I saw a whirlwind through its whole progress. 

 One lovely August day, a little after noon, without a warning 

 sign, a perpendicular column of sand, I should judge two 

 hundred feet high from the range of hills beyond, rose from the 

 common. After gyrating round within a space of three 10 four 

 hundred yards it sank to the ground more slowly than it rose, 

 forming a perfect sand storm to the east, in the direction of the 

 Cliff. The dunes where this occurred of late years have been 



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