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STATICE AND ATRIPLEX IN LINCOLNSHIRE. 
ARTHUR BENNETT. 
In The Naturalist for April, Mr. T. Petch, on p. 124, remarks 
on the above species : ‘ Does not (if my information is correct) 
pass over into Lincolnshire/ The history of this species in 
Lincolnshire, is as follows : — 
In The Botanist’s Guide, p. 388 (1805), Sir Joseph Banks 
gives its habitat as ‘ on the salt marshes near Frieston, 
Leverton, etc. ; and also near Fossdyke : it grows in the 
level grassy land, where the sheep bite close/ There are 
specimens thence in Banks’ Herbarium at the Natural History 
Museum at South Kensington ! In the year 1826, Dr. Howitt* 
sought it without success. In The Naturalist (1895), p. 101, 
the late Rev. A. Woodruffe-Peacock remarks, ‘ Native, but 
extinct, I believe.' I know of no specimens other than the 
Banksian Herbarium. 
A similar case in point is A triplex pedunculata L. In 
the Guide before quoted, Sir J. Banks remarks on this, ' Near 
Skirbeck Church Yard, half a mile from Boston, on the 
roadside between Fossdyke and Cross-key Washes, in some 
years vastly abundant, in others very difficult to find.’ In 
the Banksian Herbarium there is a sheet of twelve specimens 
from ‘ Skirbeck, near Boston,’ Lightfoot ! In The Naturalist 
(1896), p. 184, Rev. A. Woodruffe-Peacock notes, ‘ Native, 
Buddie and Banks Herbs. Brit. Mus. Burgess’ Paintings.’ 
The latter I do not know the date of. Looking through the 
Rev. Woodruffe-Peacock ’s Papers in The Naturalist from March 
1894 to March 1900, I cannot find he mentions any date; 
nor can I find it mentioned in his Papers in The Trans, of the 
Lincoln. Nat. Union. 
This last species is very peculiar in its appearances ; in 
some years in Kent I have seen it by hundreds (up to eight 
ins. high) ; two years after one or two specimens about two 
inches high may be found. 
I do not know whether the Rev. Woodruffe-Peacock suggests 
any reason for the disappearance of these two species, in his 
MS. Flora, the latter portions of which are all I have seen. 
Among the contents of The Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture for 
May, we notice : ' Germination of Indigenous Grass and Clover Seeds,’ 
by Prof. R. G. Stapledon ; ‘ Depth of Sowing Grass and Clover Seeds,’ 
by R. D. Williams ; ‘ The Liver Rot Epidemic in North Wales,’ 1920-21, 
by C. L. Walton ; and ‘ Chocolate Spot Disease or Streak Disease of 
Broad Beans,’ by S. G. Paine and Margaret S. Lacey. 
* New Bot. Guide Supp., 651 (1837). 
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