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Anthowanthum Puelii. Sandy ground, Hawkesyard, Stafford- 
—H. P. Reader. A. Puellii can be distinguished 
development. The pale usually splits along this line if handled. 
The present specimens are correctly named.—S. T. Dunn. 
Azolla caroliniana Willd. Alien. Introduced probably from 
Canada. On pond in private grounds, Hayes Place, Kent, July, 
1900. This made its appearance in the autumn of 1899 as a few 
early summer it had entirely covered the surface of the water with a 
beautiful thick moss-like carpet varying in tint from a bright green to 
a distinct red. . . . Apparently the first record of its naturalization 
in Europe. It is an annual cryptogam, whose megaspores float at 
the time of fertilization, and are firmly attached to other floating 
matter by means of the barbed hairs on the massule. There can be 
little doubt that their adhesion to*the water-lilies, mentioned by the 
contributor as imported from Canada and grown in the same pond, 
was the means of their introduction.—S. T. Dunn. ee 
[Mr. Dunn has overlooked the account of the naturalization of 
Azolla in a garden pond at Ashford, Co. Wicklow, published in this 
Journal for 1898, p. 249.—Eb. Journ. Bor.] 
ALFRED WILLIAM BENNETT 
(1888-1902). 
which he took with his two sons, Alfred William and Edwar 
Trusted—the latter, two years Alfred’s senior, survives him; notes 
each of them appear in the Phytologist between 1851 and 
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