FIELD MEETINGS, 1950 
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JUNE 25th to JULY 1st. DOUGLAS (ISLE OF MAN). 
The account of this meeting is deferred until the next issue. 
JULY 14th to 16th. THE PEAK DISTRICT. 
The account of this Field meeting is deferred until the next issue. 
AUGUST 19th to 21st. NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE. 
Leader: Miss E. J. Gibbons. 
This meeting ivas attended by the following members: — A. H. G. 
Alston, Miss B. Chalk, C. L. Collenette, J. G. Dony, J. L. Gilbert, 
Mrs. B. Hassall, R. C. L. Howitt, E. Knott, Miss M. Knox, R. Lewis, 
Miss C. Longfield, Miss B. M. C. Morgan, Mrs. W. Boyd Watt, Mrs. B. 
Welch, Miss M. M. Whiting, Dr. D. P. Young. Some of the botanical 
members of the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union were invited, and sev- 
eral of them were able to join in each day. 
On the evening of Aug. 18th a preliminary meeting took place at 
the headquarters at the Blue Bell, Scunthorpe. The leader outlined the 
geological basis and botanical possibilities of N.W. Lincolnshire. This 
area rises from the estuary of the river Trent at almost sea level to over 
;2(X) feet; the soil is chiefly blown sand with exposures of oolitic limestone 
on the high ridge known as The Cliff. Ironstone is extensively quarried 
to the north and east of Scunthorpe, where Narthecinm and Osmimda, 
once grew, but bogs are now scarce. 
The weekend was spent almost entirely in two districts of v.-c. 54, 
'North Lincoln, as outlined by Woodruffe-Peacock. The object of the 
meeting was to make records for these districts: — District 1 (Isle of 
Axholme) and District 2 (Broughton and Scunthorpe). 
Starting in good time on Saturday, a call was made at a sand-pit 
sat the M^ing Mine, Ashby, for Marruhivm and other sand plants. The 
’next stop at Bracken Hill on Ermine Street, between Broughton and 
'Scawby, for Allium. Scorodoprasum, produced a few cornfield and wood- 
land plants. The party then joined the L.N.U. (Lincolnshire Naturalists’ 
; Union) in full force, whose Field Meeting had been arranged at the 
'Greetwell-Manton cross roads (for Manton Warren and Common). This 
:is a very dry spot with a sea of Pteridiuni and Carex (irenaria, but a 
tfew other plants rewarded their search. Dropjiing down the hill again 
to Manton Common, a large stretch of heather with ponds and birch 
?scrub, the party spent several hours exploring it to its furthest limits, 
where a wonderful patch of Genfiuna Puevmoiuirifhe rewarded its finders. 
’CUidium and three Broseras, which formerly grew here, have been ex- 
ttinct for about fifty years. 
A short call was made at Twigmoor Woods, but rain came on and 
only a few members found anything. 
After tea with the L.N.U. at Scunthorpe, the party went dn to 
Brumby West Common, where wild country is left close to the town of 
'Scunthorpe. The railway viaduct and a dyke, which was formerly used 
