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“ On the Lincolnshire locality for Selinum Carvifolia, 
L. ,” by Charles Bailey, F.L.S. 
Aided by detailed indications kindly given me by Dr. 
F. Arnold Lees, I paid a special visit on the 14th September, 
1882, to the Lincolnshire station for the most recent addition 
to our flowering plants, viz., the Selinum Carvifolia, L., an 
umbelliferous plant discovered by the Rev. William Fowler, 
M. A., of Lincoln, and a member of the Botanical Record Club. 
Its occurrence as a British plant was first announced on 
pp. 127, 128, and 156 to 161 of the 1880 Report of the 
Record Club, and its first announcement was a surprise to 
botanists, as it was scarcely credible that a plant of so 
conspicuous a stature as from one to four feet should have 
escaped the notice of so many critical eyes during the last 
two centuries, and it encourages the hope that there are 
other undetected native species awaiting the researches of 
British botanists. 
The Lincolnshire locality is situate in a sparsely-populated 
portion of the county, in a somewhat woody, but very flat 
district with long straight roads and drains. It is nearly 
equidistant from Appleby, Scawby, and Glamford Briggs 
(Brigg), Scawby and Brigg forming the base of a triangle, of 
which the station for the Selinum is the apex. The locality 
may be readily identified on the Ordnance map from its 
contiguity to the old Ermine Street, which runs in a nearly 
straight north line for thirty miles from Lincoln to the 
Humber. The high road is left one mile north of the village 
of Broughton, through a gate which leads into a wood by a 
cart track, running due east, and opposite a lodge. In about 
a hundred yards or more the track opens into a narrow 
damp pasture which slopes towards a small brook flowing 
eastward. 
The Selinum begins to occur, in plenty, in this pasture as 
soon as it is clear from the shade of the wood. Judging 
by the foliage of the plant it is scattered over the small 
