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Atropa Belladonna L. In dead Lane on bank side North 

 Street, G J uly, 174-i. 



Verbascuk nigrum L. At Ballingdon Townsend, between 

 Bontils Gi'een and Brunden Lane, & below the Kitchin, Buhuur,, 

 & man}'- other places. 29 July, 174(). 



Antieriiinum Orontium L. *JJaningdon, 19 June, 1745. 



SuROi'HULARiA NODOSA L. Ail. 3. Scrophularia Scorodonia 

 R. S. 3. 283. *In a moist ditch going up Kitchin hill Buhuur from 

 Ballingdon, 11 June, 1758. [The suggested identitication is erroneous, 

 Tue plant is 2. Scrophularia major iler. of Kay's iSi/nopsis.] 



Melampvrum cristatum L. In (loUingham Hall Lays Bulmur. 

 [This distinctively East Anglian species, which replaces M. pratenselj. 

 in its area, was first recorded by Jiay in his Cambridge Catalogus 

 (1050). It is recorded for Bedfordshire, \i. Sjai. ed. 2 (iU9G). The 

 specimen from Gestingthorpe, Essex, the next parish to Bulmur, in 

 Dale's Herbarium is dated 1721.] 



Veronica Montana L. *Bunts Wood Bulmur, or Gestingthorpe. 



V. TRtPHYLLOS L. V. Jlosculis slnfjularibios folils laciniatis, 

 erecta B. S. 3. 280. 6. I found it in all the three Chappie fields in 

 Ballingdon. 



MentHxV spicata L. Mentha spicata glabra, latiore folio Dale. 

 R. S. 3. 231. *3. This mint I gathered in a little meadow adjoining 

 to Marvvood Bridge on the left hand as you go from Colchester to 

 Mersey Island. In company with Mr. Dale. 16 Aug. 1722. [This 

 form, M. viridis L. S of Smith (Engl. Flora, iii. 76), first recorded 

 by Dale (li. S. I. c.) is also represented in the Sherardian Herbarium 

 b}-" (% specimen from him. The two preceding species — 31. aiu/usti- 

 folla spicata, glabra, folio ruijosiore, odore graviore It. S. 3. 233.. 

 1. and B. Syn. i. 79, " Found by' Mr. Dale by Bocking River Side " ;, 

 and 31. spicate angustifolia, glabra, spica latiore Dale, R. S. 3.. 

 233. 2, also from Bocking — are both forms of 3L. spicata L., /j and 

 y of Smith. Buddie says he had the former " from Dale himself,, 

 who not only collected various mints, but very accurately distinguished 

 them."] 



(To be continued.) 



SHORT NOTES. 



Fertilization of Mistletoe. Since some notes on the method, 

 by which Viscum album is fertilized were given in this Journal for 

 October 1910 (p. 292), various experiments have been made with 

 a view to test the truth of the assertion that the plant is entomo- 

 jihilous. Mistletoe was stated by early writers to be anemophilous, 

 but since 1702 when Kolreuter declared it to be entomophilous, this 

 method of its pollination has been accepted. None of the writers on 

 the subject, however, are clear as to what insects are the pollinators, 

 and there seems to be a good deal of assumption in the matter. A 

 simple way to test whether insects visited the plant at all seemed to 

 be to place a barrier which they could not pass, and then to note 

 whether fertilization took place in spite of the obstacle. A(!cordingly, 

 early in 1917 some shoo'ts of a female plant were enclosed in net bags 

 of 2 mm. mesh. The bags were so arranged with small bamboo struts 



