MR. A. BENNETT ON EAST ANGLIAN PLANTS. 
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Hunts, Co. 31. 
First record, 1805. Woodward. 
Last 1820. Withering. 
“ On the right-hand side of Holme Lode near Whittlesea 
Mere.” — Dr. Paley’s “ Wild PI. of Peterborough,” 1860. 
Withering makes the Hunts (Ramsey) plant a variety, but it 
varies greatly with points he gives. In 1789, Ramsey, 
Benwich, Ugg, and Whittlesea Meres were undrained. 
(Soham Mere, about as large as Whittlesea, was drained.) 
Unfortunately we have little or no records for any of these. 
Lincoln, N. C., 54. S. Co., 53. 
First record, Gough’s Camden, Brit., 1789. The last record 
for Lincoln North was in G. Weir’s “ Hist, and Descrip. 
Sketches of the Town and Soke of Horncastle, 1820.” The 
plant list by J. Ward, and the locality Great Stuston. It 
occurred in the East Fen in immense abundance in some 
years (as generally the case with biennials). In the East Fen, 
until the winter of 1818-19, “there still existed 1673 acres of 
water in pristine glory.”* From old inhabitants . Mr. W. 
Peacock came to the conclusion that all the holes were not 
really dry till 1830. In the year 1866, with an exceptionally 
heavy rainfall, the East Fen was under water again for weeks, 
and looked like a huge lake. Two pumps were erected at 
Lode Bank and lifted the water six feet, so it is not likely to 
occur again. 
The East, West, and Wildmore Fens were drained by Mr. 
Rennie under Acts obtained in 1801 — 1803 and 1818. 
The Rev Tuckwell reported to the Rev. Woodruffe-Peacock 
that he had found the Senecio palustris at Humberstone, four 
miles south of Grimsby in North Lincoln, but Mr. W. Peacock 
wrote me — “ There is no soil or locality at Humberstone 
where the Senecio can have grown at any time during the 
historical period.” 
* Rev. A. Woodruffe-Peacock in litt. 
