44 HULL SCIENTIFIC AND FIELD NATURALISTS’ CLUB. 
East Ripinc BoranicaL Notes, 1899.—In connection with 
“The Flora of the East Riding,” which we are fast bringing to a first 
stage of completion, some good work has been done at the recent 
fieldexcursions. Astragalus danicus, (Retz.) vel hypoglottis (Linn.), 
only previously recorded for Langton Wold, was found with the 
grass Keleria cristata (Pers), a new record, on the morainic 
gravels near Brandesburton, in June last. The parasitic dodder, 
Cuscuta Trifolit (Bab.) has been rather frequent on clover, the 
dry season apparently favouring its growth; whilst another 
parasite A/onotropa Hypopitys (Linn.), the only member of the 
heath family (Ericaceze) that grows on the chalk, has flowered 
fairly well in its old station in a beech-wood near South Cave. 
Two new localities have been added to those already known for 
the bee-orchis, Ophkrys apifera, (Huds.). Scirpus pauciflorus, 
(Lightf.) is fresh for Newbald springs. Carex dioica, (Linn.) a rare 
and fast disappearing sedge with us, turned up in quantity at the 
Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union meeting at Driffield in July. Carex 
paradoxa, (Willd.) is also abundant in the last named locality, 
where it was first noticed by Mr. Charles Waterfall, in 1898. It 
also occurs at Pulfin Bog, near Hull Bridge (J. F. R., 1896). 
Now extinct at Heslington, the only other recorded (M.S.) station, 
Carex paradoxa still grows at Askham bog just within the 
North Riding. These facts seem to indicate that East 
Yorkshire is favourite ground for this otherwise very local sedge. 
C. divisa, (Good.) Teesdale’s old record (1798) for ‘* Derricoates ” 
(Dairycoates), is now extinct in this station, but grows 
plentifully between Hull and Hedon, near the Humber. Canon 
Maddock, of Patrington, sends a specimen of the fern, Asplentum 
Adiantum nigrum, (Linn.) from an old church wall in South 
Holderness—the first and only East Riding record. Zas¢rea 
Thelypteris (Presl.) is again abundant in one of the C. paradoxa 
stations above named; and Mr. Marshall, of Market Weighton, 
reports Osmunda from a damp wood between the Derwent and the 
Wolds.—Jas. FRASER ROBINSON. 
SKULL OF ANAS BOXAS FROM THE PEAT AT WITHERNSEA.— 
Bones of birds have frequently been obtained from our local peat 
beds, but they usually consist of limb bones or others difficult to 
determine. Mr. T. Pygas, jnr., of Withernsea, has handed a skull 
to me which he found in the bed of peat exposed at low tide on 
the beach at that place, a short distance north of the pier. Its dark 
and tanned appearance leaves no room for doubt that it actually 
came from the peat. Mr. W. P. Pycraft, of the British Museum - 
(Natural History), has kindly examined the specimen, and pro- 
nounces it to be the skull of a duck, probably Azas Boxas.—T. S, 
