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A LIST OF FLOWERING PLANTS, FILICES, 

 EQUISETACE/E, MOSSES, HEPATICS, AND LICHENS, 

 NOTED OR TAKEN AT WOODHALL SPA, 

 LINCOLNSHIRE, JULY 1899. 



Miss S. C. STOW, 

 Court Leys, Brandon, Grantham. 



This list is an attempt to give an accurate description of the 

 flora of the only Lincolnshire Spa, as it appeared at the end of 

 July, after a hot summer. There are about 300 species of plants 

 in the neighbourhood, but very few, if any, among- them are 

 good ones. 



I looked for Silene quinquevuhiera in the small piece of waste 

 ground by the Victoria Hotel, where it once grew. But I did 

 not find it, unless an old and dry plant, which had lost all its 

 seeds, was this species. If I had obtained fertile seeds I would 

 have grown them and found out if it is still with us. I received 

 Jersey seeds last year and grew them in the garden here. They 

 have flowered, but are only quite miniature plants three inches 

 high. S. ariglica was as abundant in the cornfields as S. noctiflora 

 is about Grantham. Rubus idcens was very common on all the 

 roadsides round Woodhall. I saw plants of an Agrimonia I did 

 not know, perhaps odorata, four-and-a-half feet high, and much 

 branched. On the part of the golf links which is nearest the 

 Bath House Cnicus arveusis, flore a/do, was more abundant than 

 the type. Some patches were twelve feet across. C. palustris 

 fiore albo was common too. I saw Stratiotes for the first time, 

 but could not reach a specimen. Agrostis canina was abundant 

 by the moors and woods, and Aira caryophyllea by the roadsides 

 and in the meadows. The hay at the end of July was only just 

 being cut, and was led directly, as well it might be, for it was 

 quite burnt up. A hundred years ago Arthur Young wrote, 

 1 Everything* in hay-making that I have seen in Lincolnshire is 

 barbarous,' and there are places where these words are 

 applicable now. I tried to find a boggy spot such as marsh 

 plants love, but did not succeed, the long drought having dried 

 them all up. This told its tale on the Mosses, Hepatics, and 

 Lichens, and they were very hard to find; and if it had not 

 been tor discovering some damp places in the Bracken Wood, 

 I should not have had nearly so man}-. 



1900 August 1. Q 



