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LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS AT SPALDING. 



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

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



The 32nd Field Meeting of the Union was held at Spalding-, in 

 the South-East of the County, on Friday and Saturday, 30th and 

 31st August 1901. The weather being dull and uncertain, only a 

 little over twenty members foregathered for work. The President 

 (the Rev. A. Thornier, F.L.S., F.E.S.) was there the whole 

 time, but Messrs. F. M. Burton, F.L.S., F.G.S., and H. Preston, 

 F.G.S., could only remain for the 30th. A fair day's work was 

 done at Crowland by the party, which drove out in two brakes, 

 on Friday, and still better results followed the morning spent at 

 Surfleet, where the rivers Glen and Welland join, and again 

 round Spalding itself on the Saturday afternoon. 



Spalding town stands on the silt of the Fenland, and nothing 

 but pure alluvium stretches for miles. Crowland, on the other 

 hand, is built on a spit of Old River gravel which runs in a north- 

 easterly direction from the long mass of Old Beach gravel which 

 lies on the west of the Fenland. As more will be said about the 

 matter later nothing further need be written here. It has been 

 pointed out before that the past and present geological evidence, 

 shading into our existing fauna and flora, is what we find in the 

 Great Fenland deposits, which are wholly Quaternary. 



Miss S. C. Stow and Mr. J. S. Sneath supplied lists of 

 plants. The most noticeable characteristic of the flora was the 

 number of aliens. 



The best things at Spalding were : — Althcea officinalis, 

 Trifolium fragiferum, Lotus uliginosus, Volvulus sepium, Mar- 

 rubium, Hydrocharis, Sparganium simplex. Crowland was rich, 

 too, and its best species were Epilobium montanum, CEnautlic 

 Phellandrium, Peucedanum sativum, Eupatorium , Bidens tri- 

 partita, Symphytum officinale, Scrophularia nodosa, Stachys 

 palusiris, Asplenium Ruta-muraria. Pinchbeck supplied Cheli- 

 donium, Cochlearia Armoracia, Impatiens Noli-me-tangere , and 

 Lycium. The last is found as an escape round many of the 

 villages of this district as it is in many other parts of the county. 

 Surfleet was productive too : — Buda marina, B. media, Mclilotus 

 officinalis, Hippuris, Aster Tripolium, Glaux, Lycium, Samolus. 

 Plantago ?nariti??ia, and P. coronopus. The rare silt /uncus 

 compressus, and the hitherto unrecorded Alopecurus promts Mitt. 



1902 June 1. 



