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countenance the prediction of the Circular. The riparial was, 

 as of old, teeming- with vegetal suggestions of Old Time, in its 

 long-ago introduced and now thoroughly-acclimatised elements. 

 Besides the Sand-leek there was Barbarea stricta, or that un- 

 named form of B. vulgaris which has its siliques borne upright 

 on short pedicels closely hugging the main stem ; also the 

 Hemp Agrimony (on the south bank of the river) with the 

 planted alien Hemerocallis fulva before the weir reach is passed; 

 that monachal simple the Goutweed, together with Tansy and 

 Mugwort, both now counted as wild, yet cultivated by the first 

 herbalists, and suggestively not found higher up the river than 

 the Priory at Bolton. And wherever pockets or slides of sand or 

 'calcareous marl' belying its name, lay over the bedrock, as at 

 the north-west angle of ' the Ings,' there Geranium columbinum, 

 characteristic arenocole, was in evidence, just as at the not- 

 visited Flint Mill three miles downstream: a proof that plants 

 in their preferences provide an alternative key to the geology of 

 the subsoil and glacial drift at least. The strict xerophilous 

 calcicoles, Asperula cynanchica and Bracliypodium pinnatum, 

 Rock-cistus, and Carline thistle were only to be seen on their 

 own fittest hearthstones, the rocky calcareous ground of Linton 

 Common to the north-west of the bridge. Uprooted, washed- 

 down by the river in spate, no shifting sand- or mud-bank, or 

 wheresoever they were deposited, could be a home or even 

 a temporary abiding place for these. This grand fact is about 

 the only thing to be learnt from the multiform observances of 

 the first Twentieth Century re-visit of the Union to ground 

 made classic even in 1840, when Baines produced the first Flora, 

 by a Dalton, a Denny, a Hailstone, an Ibbotson, and a Spruce. 



NOTE on LINCOLNSHIRE SPIDERS. 



Lincolnshire Spiders: Additional Records. — Since the publication 

 of my list of ' Lincolnshire Spiders ' in the September ' Naturalist ' four 

 additional species have come to hand which brings the number up to 

 158 Spiders occurring - in the county. 



Lepiyphantes blackwallii Kulcz. — L. terricola C.L.Koch-Camb. = Linyphia 

 tenebricola Wid.-Camb. —L. terricola Koch-Bl. = Z. zebrina Menge-Camb. 



X. 4. Irby, 18th July 1901, C. B. Parker. 

 Gongylidiam fuscum Bl. = Nerieiie fusca Bl.-Cambr. = X. agrestis Camb. 



X. 4. Grimsby, Clee, September 1901, A. Smith. 9. Humberstone, 

 September 1901, A. Smith. 

 Epeira sclopetaria Glerck. =£. sericata Koch-Bl. 



X. 4. Irby, 8th September 1901, C. B. Parker. 

 Oxyptila trux Bl.-Cambr. = Thomisus trux Bl. 



X. 4. Irby, 29th August 1901, C. B. Parker. 

 — A. Smith, 5, Cavendish Street, Grimsby, 16th October 190 1. 



Naturalist, 



