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done, and tlie belief of this may save a needless panic and nncallcd-for 

 rise in the price of corn. — J. Boswell Syme. 



Tmpatiens fulva in Kent. — I am not aware that Imjmtlens f/ilva 

 has ever been recorded for the above comity, so it may be worth while 

 noting that it is, and has been for at least eight years, extremely abun- 

 dant on both sides of the little river Ravensbourne, near Lower Syden- 

 ham. I have more than once walked along the stream for a considerable 

 distance without losing sight of the plant. — James Britten. 



Flora of Marlborough. — The following plants may be added to 

 the list of additions given in ' Journal of Botany,' Vol. VIII. p. 324 : — 



Diplotaxis muralis ! j Arctium minns ! 



Nasturtium amphibium ! Lactuca virosa ! 



Thlaspi perfoliatum ! (Savernake.) [ Vacciniura Myrtillus 



Spergularia rubra ! 



Geranium pyrenaicum ! 



Melilotns vulgaris ! 



Orobus tuberosus, /3. tenuifolius ! 



Rosa arvensis, var, bibi'acteata ! 



Prunus Avium ! 



Rubus Lejeunii {Jide Babington). 



Epilobiura obscurum ! 



Hieracium sylvaticum ! 



Senecio sylvaticus ! 



Bideas cernua ! 



Chlora perfoliata ! 

 Lysimachia vulgaris ! 

 Digitalis purpurea ! 

 Nepeta (Jataria ! 

 Lamium incisum ! 

 ScntelLu'ia minor! 

 Allium vineale, /3. compactum ! 

 Lemna trisulca ! 

 Carex fulva ! 



Alopecurns fulvus ! (Swindon Re- 

 servoir.) 



Specimens of each have come under my notice while looking through a 

 portion of the herbarium of the Marlborougli College Natural History 

 Society; Camelina satlva maybe added to the list of casuals. — James 

 Britten. 



Winter Fertilization. — In the first number of ' Nature' (for Nov. 

 4th, 1869), I ventured a hypothesis, founded on a series of observations, 

 that plants which flower in the winter have their reproductive organs 

 specially arranged to promote self-fertilization. The following fact seems 

 to confirm this theory : — I recently came upon a late-flowering patch of 

 Sldluria aqiiatica, Scop., on which the following observations were made 

 on two separate occasions, Oct. 21st and 28th. Plants belonging to the 

 Order CaryopJiyllacece are, as a rule, so strongly protandrous (see my 

 paper in the ' Journal of Botany' for October, 1870), that cross-fertiliza- 

 tion is almost essential. In the present instance, however, I found in 

 almost all the open flowers, of which there were a considerable number, 

 the anthers discharging their pollen at the time when the stigma was 

 receptive, the stigraatic surfaces being brought into immediate contact 

 with the dehiscing anthers in a singular manner. Of the ten stamens five 

 are opposite the petals, while five spring from interpetalar glands. The 

 former rested nearly horizontally on the petals ; the latter, structurally the 



