153 
SHORT NOTES. 
ERMAPHRODITE Hazets.—I have noticed in this neighbourhood 
s 
the three plants a fairly large proportion of the male catkins, 
perhaps about a quarter, exhibited the ‘wba desist growth; the 
a 
number of style-bearing florets on a catkin varying Fro 00 
three to fifteen or more. styles occurred mostly among the 
wer have seen the hazel quoted as an example 
stigmas to receive it; and that as long as mature stigmas remain, 
there remains also some pollen to fertilise them.— NEWDIGATE. 
[See Journ. rg 1889, 193, for note on another somewhat similar 
form. Specime s of both are in the British Museum Herbarium.— 
Lonicera CapriroLium 1x WEsT Ken v.—Two or three years ago 
I maak, I found Lonicera Caprifolium growing in the neighbour- 
hood of Halling, near Maidstone, but it was too early in the year to say 
for certain. Last week, however, I certified it. It is not, I suppose, 
native, but in this station it has every appearance of one, growing 
on top of a steep chalky bank on the rough edge of a large 
thicket of hazel, &c., from habitations. In t hbour- 
hood Helleborus fetidus and Aquilegia vulgaris grow in consid l 
quantity, both, I think, gro native. The Lonicera may be 
bird-sown, but were it not for the great doubt which appears to 
exist as to its nativity in Britain, I should not for an instant have 
tae a station.— Wottey Don. 
F Kent Lavoie various causes, the Sooner of this 
work, evjeeled a good many years ago, has been postpon The 
available materials are no wy bawaver, ‘nearly all incorporated and 
we hope to see them in pits at no distant date. Owing to the 
great advance made recently in the euhaibags of critical forms, we 
need, and earnestly invite, the assistance of all botanists who may 
visit the county during the present season, in order that the 
Oo 
ms may be as accurate and 
complete as possi Our own occupations, and the fact of our 
being non-resident nt the county, make this co-operation the more 
necessary and valuable. The recgeds oi i Rosa, Rubus, 
a be 8 groups especially 
indifferent material is useless. The Sevenoaks district may be 
expected to promise many brambles of interest; and the marshes 
of Sheppey and Thanet, as well as the wealden district between 
Cranbrook and Romney Marsh, should repay careful search. The 
