Martin Lister and Lincolnshire natural history : Presidential address to the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union, 1927 / [H.W. Kew].

  • Harry Wallis Kew
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[1927]
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Credit: Martin Lister and Lincolnshire natural history : Presidential address to the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union, 1927 / [H.W. Kew]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wind-holes aside them. On these matters Ray agreed that what Lister had sent him was Amber, and that ‘the other great piece ’ was Jet; but of the small dust [which still forms the well-known black drift along our coast] he said nothing.* Other letters of 1669 (Derham, pp. 48, sqq.) were mostly concerning plants, Ray was then preparing his ‘ Catalogus Plantarum Angliae chiefly he said, by Lister’s instigation and encouragement. Among the dried specimens or lists supplied by Lister was Rhamnus primus [Hippophae rhamnoides, Sallow-Thorn or Sea Buckthorn] from the Lincolnshire coast, where Ray had already been informed by Dr. Mapletoft that it grew. In the following year, 1670, the ‘Catalogus’ was made public, and Lister’s discoveries therein recorded included the following from this county:! 1. Cavyophyllata vulgaris majore flore C. B., Avens with a large flower. [Geum intermedium]. In Tetford Wood. 2. Fungi longissimo pediculo candicantes sed maculati J. B., Tall Navel Mushrome. [Lepiota procera\. Observed in the Wolds in Lincolnshire, &c., by Mr. Lister, who also experienced it in eating to be more savoury than the Champignon. 3. Fungi Pezicae Plinii Col., Cup Mushrome. [‘ Peziza ’]. This sprang out of the clefts of the ground in the dry year 1666 in the wood-ridings at Burwell. 4. Mentastrum spicatum folio longiore candicante J. B., Long-leaved Horse-Mint. [Mentha longifolia]. By Burwell-beck plenti¬ fully. [Lister’s more precise habitat has already been quoted. Peacock (‘Naturalist’, 1896) adds: ‘It is growing by the side of the same stream to-day ’]. 5. Rhamnus primus Diosc. sive Rhamnus Salicis folio angnsto, fructu flavescente C. B., Sallow-thorn or Sea Buckthorn. [Ftippophae rhamnoides]. On the sea-banks on Lindsey- Coast. * Cp. ‘ An Account of several Observables in Lincolnshire by Mr. Christopher Merret, Surveyor of the Port of Boston ’ (Phil. Trans , 1696) : ' I suppose ’tis Coals broken f Similar county-records re-appeared in Ray’s ‘Catalogus’, 1677, ' Historia Plantarum’, 1686, and ‘Synopsis Methodica Stirpium ’, 1690; and some of my quotations have been amended from these works There were other acknowledgments to Lister for other counties, e.g. Fungus pipem- tus, &c. (Pepper Mushrome) from Marton Woods in Craven : the Lactarius piperatus (Linn.) which Withering wished to call Agaricus Listen.
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