EAST RIDING BOTANICAL NOTES, 1g00. 
By J. F. Rosrnson. 
HE botanical section of the Hull Scientific and Field 
Naturalists’ Club during the past year has again done 
good work, both in old ground and also in newly visited 
patches. Thus at Birkhill Wood, near Beverley, where the 
late Mr. Geo. Norman was accustomed to ‘‘ botanise’’ forty 
years ago, Veronica montana, Melampyrum pratense, Paris quad- 
vifolia, and Luzula sylvatica were found in June last. Of these, 
Luzula is a new vice-country record; and, near to its station, 
we made the discovery of a patch of heather, Calluna Erica, 
which previously was not known either in Holderness or on 
the Chalk Wolds. The fast disappearing marshes have, as 
usual, not been neglected, with the satisfactory result that 
Lathyvus palustris, sapposed to be entirely or almost entirely 
lost to Yorkshire, was found flowering in a station near 
Arram, and in the neighbourhood of Lysimachia vulgaris, Cavex 
pavadoxa, Lastvea Thelypterts, &c., whilst over them all waved 
many a purple grey plume of the rather common East Riding 
grass, Calamagrostis lanceolata. The salt marsh alluvium near 
the Humber below Paull yielded, so lately as 18th August of 
this year, a plant which was quite new to Yorkshire, namely, 
Bupleuvum tenuissimum ; and a day or so later, in brackish pools 
nearer Spurn, the keen eyes of Mr. T. Petch, B.A., B.Sc., 
who first saw the Bupleuyum, detected Ruppia spiralis, this 
being the first record for the East Riding of Yorkshire. Later 
still the small clubmoss, Selaginella selaginoides, together with 
Bryum turbinatum, have been added to our list as found at 
North Newbald. Add to the above the very large number 
of aliens and foreigners that Messrs. WaterfaJl and Boult 
have found stranded on waste places near the Hull Docks 
and elsewhere, since the appearance of the last part of the 
Transactions, and it will be seen that no lack of reward has 
accrued to East Riding botanists, whose promised ‘“ Flora”’ 
has now assumed such respectable proportions that it should 
not be long before it reaches the public. 
LitrteE GuLL aT WITHERNSEA AND LITTLE AUK AT 
BarTon-on-HuMBER.—I have in my collection a Little Gull 
(Larus minutus), which was shot at Withernsea after a storm 
three or four years ago; and a Little Auk (Mergulus alle), 
which was caught at Barton-on-Humber on 22nd March, 
1g00, by Mr. R. Stamp.—Cuas. CoLpWELt. 
