214 Yorkshire Naturalists at Bridlington, 



of the .cliff, a number of interesting things were also found. 

 Chief' of these were Cerastium semidecandrum, C. glomeratum 

 and C. arvense, Daucus gummifer, the four plantains : — Plantago 

 lanceolata, P. media, P. maritima and P. coronopus, with 

 Hieracium pilosella, Rumex acetosella, and the little spring 

 grass Air a prcecox. 



Cow-parsnip and red Campion seem to be the dominant 

 plants quite close to the cliff edge, and on the steep slopes down 

 the gullies between the cliff faces. 



After skirting the cliff edge for some distance past the 

 Bempton section, at Cat Nab the party turned due south, 

 proceeding along the fosse or deep depression of the Danes' 

 Dyke, until the Flamborough village and station road was 

 reached. 



The ravine was a wilderness of flowering plants, some of 

 tvhich, in the order in which they were noted on the spot, may 

 be mentioned. On the western face of the great earth-work. 

 Furze or Gorse, with a considerable quantity of Common Broom, 

 so uncommon in the E. Riding generally, were both flowering. 

 Another leguminous plant, restharrow, was plentiful, but as 

 yet, only in the vegetative state. Pimpinella saxifraga, 

 Silaus fiavescens, both also in leaf only, Viola riviniana, Spircea 

 Filipendula, primroses still in flower, but only a few signs of 

 cowslip, were all found ; while the great beds of red campion, 

 containing the biggest and most luxuriant specimens we have 

 yet seen, were the admiration of all. Epilobiiim angusti- 

 foliiim will make a fine show when the red campion flowering- 

 time is past. The true hemlock [Coniiim maculatum) grew 

 amongst the rank vegetation in many places. Aspen trees 

 {Populus tremula) hung out their silky fruit-catkins, and in 

 damp ground at the bottom of the depression, many evidences 

 of Ophioglossum vulgatum, the adder's tongue fern, were seen. 



An interesting little oval pond, with dimensions of 20 by 

 15 feet, occurs in the depression not far from the Flamborough' 

 and Bempton Road. It was bordered by many big old tus- 

 socks of the common rush {Juncus effusus) which sprang from 

 a green belt of Callitricheverna, Myosotis palustris and Ranun- 

 culus aquatilis var. or sub. sp. heterophyllus. Within this, 

 towards the centre of the pond, was open water, while the 

 middle was covered by an oval patch of the brown-green plants 

 of the pond weed Potamogeton crispus, and quite close to the 

 patch there were a few plants of the ' flowering rush ' {Butomits 

 tcmbellahts) , not yet, of course, in flower. 



One had expected to see more of the orchidaceous type of 

 plants in the district visited, but, except for twayblade [Listcra 

 ovata), which was plentiful, only Orchis Morio, 0. ustulata and 

 0. latifolia were observed. 



GEOLOGY.^Mr. Sheppard writes :— During the week-end 



Naturalist, 



