228 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
SHORT NOTES. 
A “ Douste” Orcuts.—A curious specimen of Orchis Morio L. 
was brought me in May by one of my flower-class, which seems to 
be a step in the direction of a double Orchis. The sepals were 
the right hand of the railway immediately after leaving the town. 
It is presumably a comparatively recent introduction, as it is not 
recorded for district 7 in the Flora of Kent.—Jamus Britten. — 
SoLanuM TuBERosuM L. anp its Atnims.— Molina, in his 
History of Chile (1782), makes the following statement with refer- 
the aborigines died out or were driven back, and hybridizing 
naturally for ages since. No one now expects to find the origin 
wild maize; may it not be equally futile to seek for the original 
wild potato ?—R. Morton MippeTon. 
afraid it is impossible for the Watson Club—whose Report is 
usually issued last, owing to the later date at which the distribu- 
tion takes place—to avoid such duplication, since, by doing so, 
the thirty-seven members who do not belong to the Botanical 
