Thoma Pynchon writes in his novel Mason & Dixon, about a certain Colonel Bouquet:

His Scheme is to tessellate 
across the plains a system of 
identical units, each containing five Squares in the shape of a 
Greek Cross, with each central square controlling the four radiating 
from it,-'tho, as to their size, no one is agreed, with some saying a 
mile on a side, others ten, or an Hundred,- Ohio, and the western 
Prairie beyond presenting 
such an Enigma, that no one 
knows what scale to work at.
Patterns with symmetry type p4m