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Clay : — Paris qiiadrifolia, Pimpinella Saxifraga var. dissecta, 

 Jiore roseo, Saniciila europcea, Calamintha clinopodium. On 

 Kimeridge Clay : — Sile?ie ciiciibalus var. puhei'iila, — S. C. Stow, 

 Grantham, loth September 1904. 



Sonchus palustris in North Lincolnshire. — Mr. Arthur 

 Bennett writes to me he has a Lincolnshire specimen of Sojichus 

 palustris lying- before him. There is no doubt it is the true 

 plant. It is in the Herbarium of the Dublin Museum of Science 

 and Art. The label is as follows: — 'Lord de Tabley's Coll., 

 Sonchus palustris, Fens, Lincolnshire, A. Bloxam.' No doubt 

 this is one of the East Fen specimens. Bloxam was a young- 

 friend of Sir Joseph Banks. Most unluckily H. C. Watson 

 muddled the Banks-Young- list, and in the ' Topographical 

 Botany' put the species down for S. Lines. 53 instead of in 

 N. Lines. 54, which was their proper place. The East Fen 

 being north of Boston, all the species in that list are in the 

 wrong vice-county, Senecio palustris and S. paludosus for 

 instance. — E. Adrian Woodruffe Peacock. 



Lincolnshire Plant Notes. — Antenna7'ia dioica R.Br, is very 

 rare in the eastern counties south of the Humber. I received it 

 from Misses Skrine and Erskine, taken in Barnach old quarries 

 on the 24th June. Scirpus Caricis Retz. is very rare in Lincoln- 

 shire. It was also taken by the lake near Holywell Hall, S. 

 Lines. 53, on 24th June, by the Rev. W. W. Mason and Miss 

 Stow. Trifoliufn ochroleucoft Huds. according to my notes is 

 commoner in Hulland than in the neighbouring counties. I have 

 received it from Miss TroUope from Empingham parish and 

 from the wood side between Great Castleton and Folethorpe. 

 It seems to have disappeared from its old Pickworth locality. 

 In Lincolnshire N. and S. it is peculiar, as recorded, to Chalky 

 Boulder Clay. It is very rare with us. I have only four certain 

 localities, and have never taken it personally. Bromus mollis 

 var. ovalis Parnell. This variety is not in the 9th ed. of the 

 'London Catalogue,' but is in the 8th ed. of Babington's 

 * Manual.' It has been sent to me from Riseby Manor, Market 

 Rasen, from a Middle Chalk, Sanfoin {Onohrychis vicicefolia) 

 field, of two years' growth. Last season it was not noticed. 

 This year it is in Marge quantity.' No doubt the seeds were 

 imported along with the Sanfoin, and its small growth was 

 unremarkable in 1903. But the winds and wet of last winter 

 dispersed it widely, and gave it a fair chance in the struggle for 

 existence. — E. Adrian Woodruffe Peacock, Cadney, Brigg, 

 ist July 1904. 



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