424 Field Note. 



On carefully cxamiiiiiii^- Mr. Reid's and the present list one or 

 two difficulties appearing;;: in the survey memoir disappear. I 

 have elsewhere shown* that the bone of the lion, recorded as from 

 Hornsea, is reall\- from Bielbecks, and thus our greatest diffi- 

 culty has been removed. There can be little doubt also that the 

 remains of Elephas primigenius, which Mr. Reid queries, cannot 

 have come from the peat bed, but are from the boulder clay, 

 and therefore of older date. The remainiui,'- fauna, as shown 

 by Mr. Reid's list, conforms with what can be obtained from 

 other post-j^lacial peat beds in the district, and presents no 

 serious difficulty. With reg-ard to such species as Ccnms 

 megaceros and Bos primigenius,\ these seem to indicate that the 

 deposit is older than, say, similar deposits occurring- on Goole 

 and Thorne Moors, notwithstanding: the fact that, so far as 

 flora is concerned, there is no evidence of altered climatic 

 conditions. 



The peat bed exposed in the Hornsea section is not a level 

 deposit, but occurs in small anticlines and synclines, as thoug-h 

 these were originally a series of small meres and not one larg-e 

 sheet of water. 



Stratig-raphicall}- the Hornsea deposit would appear to be 

 older than the others on the coast line in which, at anv rate, 

 there is no gfreat accumulation of g-ravel abo\ e the peat, the 

 presence of which at Hornsea is somewhat difficult to account 

 for. 



I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Reid in identifying- the 

 plant remains, to Mr. J. W. Taylor for identifying- the shells, 

 and to Mr. J. W. Stather, F.G.S. , for the drawing- and details 

 of the section on page 42 1 . 



FLOWERING PLANTS. 



Wintergreen in East Yorkshire. In July last Miss Piercy 

 of Tibthorpe coiiimunicated to the Hull Scientific and Field 

 Naturalists' Club, the finding- by herself in a plantation near 

 Tibthorpe, of the Winterg-reen, Pyrola minor, of which g-ood 

 specimens were forwarded at the time. This is the first record 

 of P. minor in the Riding- east of the ^'orkshire Wolds. Else- 

 where with us it is not a con-imon plai-it. J. V. RoniNsoN, Hull. 



* ' Naturalist,' April 1904, pp. ioj-104. 



t The "?" to tills in Mr. Reid's list can safely be removed. 



Naturalist, 



