200 Field Notes. 



feature of the section was the great variety of Carboniferous 

 Limestone boulders, fine-grained, hard, black, grey and blue, 

 limestone, without traces of fossils ; coarse and fine encrinital 

 limestones, some highly crystalline ; black limestones, v/ith 

 splendid corals ; limestones with many Producti and other 

 fossils ; and cherts — truly a fine collection. There are a few, 

 coarse grits, more finer sandstones, but only two or three 

 specimens of igneous rocks were seen. Evidently these ridges 

 are of morainic origin, from the shape of the stones and their 

 mode of occurrence. From wherever they came, the carrying 

 agency must have passed over and picked them up from the 

 outcrop of almost all the Carboniferous Limestones and Yoredale 

 Rocks of North-west Yorkshire. 



In conchology Rev. E. P. Blackburn records that the weather 

 was too wet and cold for the animals to crawl about. At Hun- 

 singore were found Limax agrestis sylvatica ; L. nuiximtis , small 

 and typical ; L. fidvus, a small dark form found not in the 

 house but in a wall ; Arion kortensis, adult, common and pale ; 

 Hygroviia hispida var. hispidosa ; and Vitrea alliaj'ia. At Flaxby 

 immature Helix ncmoralis and H. hispida. 



Votes of thanks were passed to the landowners for per- 

 mission to visit their estates, and another to the Chairman for 

 his services, and eight new members were elected. 



Nothwithstanding the weather, not one regretted his presence 

 at Cowthorpe on 9th May. T. S. 



FVNGl. 

 Fungi of Masham and Swinton : Corrections. — For 



Leticosporece read Leiicospofce ; Pucciiiece read Puccijiiece ; Dis- 

 comycetece read Discomyceta: \ Hymenomycetce^ p. 181, read 

 HyphomycelcF. — C. Crossland, Halifax. 



Geaster Bryantii in Lincolnshire. — Miss Susan Allatt 

 sends from Nettleton, near Caistor, a rare and interesting 

 fungus, viz., Geaster Bryantii Berkeley, distinguished from other 

 distinctly pedicellate Geasters by its groove round the top of 

 the pedicel, conical sulcato-striate peristome, and dark brown 

 spores. It was growing vmder a Hawthorn hedge, and is two 

 inches in diameter. It was gathered during the last week in 

 March, and the endoperidium is still full of spores. A note on 

 Geaster fornicatus will be found on page 288 of the September 

 number of last year, and a correction on page 316 of that for 

 October. — W. Fowler, Liversedge Vicarage, 27th April 1903. 



Naturalist. 



