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D. alata, Ceramium rubrum^ C. echinatum, Ulva latissivia, U. linya, Fucus 

 vesiculosus, F. serratus, F. ceranoides, Griffithsia setacea, Chrysirnenia clavellosa, 

 Laminaria digitata, L. saccharina^ Cladophora rupestris, and many others as yet 

 undeternained. Of marine Polyzoa were noticed Tubidipora patina, Diastopo7-a 

 obelia, Crista aculeala, Crisidia cormda, Ge7?ieilaria loricata, Fhistra foliacea, F. 

 chartacea, Carbasea papyrea, MeDiby-anipora pilosa, M. membranacea, Cellipora 

 pumicosa, Amathia Undigera and many others not yet worked out. Of hydroid 

 zoophytes there were Campanularia serpens (?), PUaiinlaria falcata^ P. cristata, 

 Antennaria antenjtina, Sertularia abietina, S. Jilicina, S. operctilata, and Haleciuni 

 halecinum, while of sponges were observed Grantia pulverulenta, Spongia limbata^ 

 Halichondria ramosa, and B. panicea. Mr, Turner remarks, in sending these 

 notes, that Spurn requires a week's hard work. 



Mr. P. F. Lee, of Dewsbury, Phanerogamic Secretary for the Botanical 

 Section, reports, that considering the limited time (about three hours) spent at the 

 Point, and also taking into account the very small area worked, a fairly good pro- 

 portion of the sea-side flora was observed. On the shingle of the river's beach, 

 the Sea Rocket {Cakile maritima) and the Saltwort {Salsola Kali) were growing in 

 abundance. The sandy dunes between this and the ocean, all mantled, and at 

 the same time kept intact by the maritime form of the tall Fescue-grass {Festiica 

 arundinacea), the Mat-grass {Psanima arenaria), the Lyme grass {Elynms 

 arenaritis)^ and the Sea-sedge {Caj'cx arenaria), though much trodden down by 

 the weekly tide of excursionists from Grimsby, yielded us other good plants, 

 viz : — the Sea-Holly {Eryngitim maritimum), a young specimen of Sweet Briar 

 delightfully scented {Rosa rubiginosa), Musky Stork's-bill {Erodium inoscJiahun), 

 Sea Wormwood {Artemisia maritima), Spiny Rest-harrow [Ofionis spinosa), and 

 the rare Sea Buckthorn, a shining silvery willow-like shrub {Hippophae r/ianuwides), 

 in fine fruit, and well able to hold its own with its strong array of prickles, against 

 the wanton destroyer. The Rev. H. H. Slater as guide, anxious too for the 

 botanists to see a patch of Dodder he had discovered a day or two before, was leading 

 them on to the charmed ground, when lo ! one of the Dewsbury lady-botanists 

 startled us by shouting out ' Dodder ' — there, sure enough, was another great patch of 

 that fascinating but deadly parasite. It proved to be the var. Ctisaita trifolii, a form 

 of C. Epithynmm, which, according to Sir J. D. Hooker, does not seem entitled 

 even to sub-specific rank, being so similar to the type, and parasitic on other plants 

 as well as those of the Clover family. This one was on Lotus corniculatus, and 

 creeping over Galium verum. Nearer the sea-coast were gathered specimens of 

 the Jointed Glass-wort {Salicornia herbacea), Sea Star-wort [Aster Tripolium), Sea- 

 blite {Sudcda maritima), the Sea Milk-wort ( Glaux maritima), while on other parts 

 of the sand-hills were the Yellow- wort [Chlora perfoliata), the Red Goose-foot 

 {Chenopodium rubrum), the sea-side Bindweed {Con-uolvulus Soldanella), and the 

 Oraches — Atriplex patula, sub-sp. Babingtonii, and A. laciniata. 



The members of the Geological Section present were not very numerous but 

 made up for this by dint of hard work in the time at their disposal. Specimens of 

 encrinital limestone, some gneiss, black Scandinavian flints, liassic fossils, silurian 

 schist, corals, a fragment of what was judged to be old red conglomerate, granite, 

 trap, &c. were picked up on the shingle by Mr. S. A. Adamson, F.G.S., of Leeds, 

 and his companions— and submitted to the Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A. , one of the 

 secretaries of the Section. — W.D.R. 



Pasiphsea Sivado. — While dredging at the mouth of the Dee this summer, 

 we took two fine specimens of Pasiphcea Sivado, which are now in our Natural 

 Science Society's Museum. As far as we know this crustacean has not been taken 

 before on the North Wales or Cheshire Coasts. Bell, in his ' Stalked-eyed 

 Crustacea,' speaks of it as rare in the British seas, but as the book is rather old, 

 I should be glad to hear whether any readers of the Naturalist have met with it in 

 their dredging expeditions. It at once attracts attention in the dredge by its 

 beautiful transparent appearance, which becomes of an opaque white when placed 

 in spirits, and it is otherwise easily distinguished from Shrimps and Prawns from 

 the fact that the first two pairs of legs are of the same length and thickness. — 

 C. F. Fish, Chester, Oct. 21st, 1884. 



Nov. 1884. 



