Historical and Descriptive Sketches of the Town and Soke of Horncastle [1820]: in the county of Lincoln, and of several places adjacentWeir, George
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Historical and Descriptive Sketches of the Town and Soke of Horncastle [1820]: in the county of Lincoln, and of several places adjacent
Weir, George
Horncastle (England)
Tussilago petasites Horncastle.
Typha latifolia Tetford.
Vaccinium oxycoccum Moor.
Valeriana sylvestris Horncastle, Tattershall.
Verbascum Tetford Wood.
Verbena officinales West Ashby.
Vinca major Salmonby.
Viola albus Edlington.
Viola canina Tetford Wood.
Viola hirta Ditto.
Viola tricolor Holbeck, Salmonby, Tetford.
Minerals occur rarely in this part, and in very small quantities. Lumps
of sulphuret of iron in the oolite stratum, earthy oxide of iron and
prussiate of iron in a valley at Salmonby, and a stalactitic oxide of
iron in the ferruginous gravel, comprise all the varieties which have yet
been found.
Although organic remains are to be found in some parts of this district
in considerable quantities, yet they do not include many varieties. The
following list of those now in the collection of the author, comprises
one of almost every species which has yet been found.
_From the Chalk Stratum_. No. 2.
A cast within some bivalve Venus.
A cast within Terebratula semiglobosus. _Sowerby’s Mineral Conchology_,
15 _and_ 59.
_From the Sand Stone Stratum_. No. 5.
An Ammonites, curious and not named. It is without a keel; else like
Ammonites inflatus.
A Cardita. _Sowerby’s Mineral Conchology_, 197.
An Inoceramus.
An Unio.
A Terebratula approaching glaber.
A Terebratula approaching acerminatus.
A cast within a bivalve, not named.
A cast within a Trochus.
_From the Shale or Clunch Clay_. No. 6.
An Os Femoris of some large quadruped.
Part of a large Vertebræ.
Part of a small Vertebræ.
An Ammonites, not named.
A Venus equales. _Sowerby’s Mineral Conchology_, 21.
An Ostrea crista galli. _Linnæus_.
A Cardita.
An Unio hybrida. _Sowerby’s Mineral Conchology_, 154, _fig._ 2.
An Ostrea under valve, with a cast of the inside of the upper valve.
A Griphites incurva. _Sowerby’s Mineral Conchology_, 112, 1 _and_ 2.
An Ammonites seratus. _Sowerby’s Mineral Conchology_, 24.
An Inoceramus Cuvierii hinge.
Several Unios.
A piece composed entirely of shells, the chief part of which are the
Serpula auricula. It also contains an inside cast of a small turretted
shell.
_From the beds of Ferruginous Gravel in Alluvium of Shale_. No. 8.
A Madrepore.
An Alcyonium, or Spongites.
An Astarte.
A cast of Shell, not named.
An Echinus.
A cast of an Unio indistinct.
A part of a Spongites.
An Ostrea, with a cast of the upper valve.
An impression of a Cactus, or an Euphorbia, or some other Oriental plant.
_Sowerby’s Mineral Conchology_, 40.
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