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Field Notes. 
with darker markings measuring about 3-4 mm., but when 
flattened under pressure 6-7 m.m, faintly three-lobed, entire, 
or sub-entire, the middle lobe when present often a little longer 
than the lateral one. The flower viewed from the front, owing 
to the erect upper petals and sepals and the reflexed lateral 
margins of the lip, looks long and narrow, and is actually 
smaller than praetermissa . Spur conical, blunt, incurved, 
shorter than ovary. 
MOSSES. 
Pterygophyllum lucens Brid. in West Lancs., and a 
correction. — With regard to the note recording the occurrence 
of Hookeria lsete-virens in West Lancs., which appeared on 
page 129, the specimen has since been submitted to Mr. J. A. 
Wheldon, who pronounces it to be Pterygophyllum lucens 
Brid. — W. W. Mason. 
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GEOLOGY. 
liolaster planus in the Hessle Chalk. — During a recent 
excursion of the Hull Geological Society to Hessle, East 
Yorks., I obtained a particularly fine specimen of Holaster 
planus from the upper part of the section. This is the first 
record for the Hessle quarries, and is interesting in so far as it 
proves the occurrence of the upper chalk in this neighbourhood, 
according to Rowe’s classification. The specimen has been 
added to the local collection in the Hull Museum. — George 
Sheppard, Withernsea. 
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FISHES. 
Record of Sunfish ( Orthagoriscus mola ) in the Humber 
in 1815.- — In Sheahan’s ‘History of Hull’, page 97, is the 
following account of what is apparently an unusually large 
Sunfish, which was stranded at Hull in the 16th century. It is 
probably one of the earliest records of this species that we have 
for the county. It is not mentioned in Clarke and Roebuck’s 
Vertebrate Fauna of Yorkshire : — ‘ In 1592 after some heavy 
gales of wind from the south-east, a large fish was driven ashore 
near Drypool, and excited much admiration. It was almost 
of an oval shape, six feet long, five feet broad, and six feet 
between the extreme parts of the upper and lower fins. One 
of the fins was placed on the back, and the other on the belly, 
designed perhaps by nature to keep it erect in the water. It 
was taken to be the Orthagoriscus parens gesneri ; and what 
Pliny calls the little sea-hog.’ — T. S. 
Naturalist, 
