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Crimdon Dene to Black Halls, in the ruts on old ploughed 

 fields : — Scraper, i ; flakes, 50. 



Black Halls, chiefly on ploug-hed fields near the hotel: — 

 Scrapers, 7; borer, i; very small implement, i; cores, 12 ; 

 flakes and chips, about 600 ; bruised quartzite pebbles, about 12. 



Black Halls to Deneholme :— Scraper, i. (Many flakes in 

 edg-es of sea banks and ruts in ploug-hed fields.) 



Deneholme to Horden :— Flakes, about 150; cores, 8 or 9. 



Horden Station site : — About 600 chipped flints on the site 

 of the old settlement. 



Horden to Ryhope : — Scraper,:. Flakes fairly plentiful. 



Ryhope to Sunderland : — Flakes (very sparingly found), 

 about 6. 



Sunderland to South Shields : — Flakes, about 10, found at 

 various times. 



Near Westoe a well-formed flake was found on the summit 

 of a stack of limestone, entirely cut off from the rest of the 

 cliffs. 



BOTANY. 



Plants at Moortown. — The Forty-seventh Field Meeting 

 of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union was held at Moortown 

 on 25th August 1905. The ground worked was blown sand and 

 fresh-water alluvium. The neighbourhood had only one very 

 rare species, Equisetiim hyemale, r\e.3.r the station, the only area 

 in the county where it grows. Another interesting plant growing 

 near by is Pyrola minor. Solidago virgaurea was fairly common 

 in the open woods and sandy banks ; Hypericum pulchriun was 

 rare; and one plant of Dipsacus sylvestris was seen on the 

 boulder clay adjoining the above soil. The sandy sides of the 

 wide road to Caistor gave Geranium pyrenaiciim, which has 

 within recent years come down the slope from Nettleton ; on 

 the leaves of this plant was found the fungus Uromyces geranii. 

 Serratula tinctoria, Campanula rotundifolia flore albo, Lotus 

 nliginosiis and Scahiosa succisa were found on the same road- 

 side ; in the open woods Verbascum thapsus, Sagina nodosa ; on 

 the river alluvium at the river head Volvulus sepiutn, MentJia 

 viridis, and Potamogeton pectinalis. In a stagnant pool in a 

 wood known as the Raspberries was found floating in large 

 numbers the Viw^rwoxX^ Ricciocarpns natans, and the var. 

 terrestris, which is the same plant — it lands to produce spores. 

 A. Smith, .Grimsby. - ■.'li. .. 



1905 December i. 



