190 Mr R. Edmonds on Bee-hive British Dwellings. 
lage, and a like low gallery (5 feet high) within the thick- 
ness of the walls, to have been a private entrance into it.* 
But I have elsewhere} shown that such low narrow galleries . 
or roofed spaces between two parallel walls, especially when 
those walls are concentric, and enclose an area open to the’ 
sky, leaving only one external entrance, were probably 
sleeping places, divided by transverse walls into separate 
apartments, all opening into the area—these sleeping- 
places being buried beneath an annular mound of earth or 
stones covered with turf, furze, and thorns, except where 
the apartments opened into the area. A cluster of such 
dwellings constituted a British village. 
P.S.—I saw the Bosphrennis dwelling after the above 
paper was read, but so transiently, owing to an unexpected 
fall of rain, that I mention it merely to add, that in going 
thither I observed, close to the south side of a small meadow 
called the Vineyard, into which the Bosphrennis residence { 
opens, large portions of the walls of what appeared to me to 
have been a cluster of British dwellings: and the unce- 
mented stones forming the modern high walls enclosing 
the meadow were in all probability taken from these dwell- 
ings. 
Notice of Observations by F. Coun, Breslau, on the Con- 
tractile Filaments of the Stamens in Thistles.§ Communi- 
cated by Dr AtexanpErR Dickson. || 
The following is the substance of a letter addressed to 
Professor C. Von Siebold, in which the author details his 
observations on the contractility in the filaments of the 
stamens in thistles:—The five anthers cohere, forming a 
* Antiquities, p. 273. t Landsend District, pp. 45, 47. 
t The villagers of Bosphrennis would laugh at this being called a residence, 
although in its day it was doubtless no mean habitation. They call ita crow, 
which is a Cornish word (pronounced like crow in crowd) signifying a “ pig- 
gery.” 
2 Ueber die contractilen Staubfaden der Disteln. Ein Sendschreiben von 
Ferdinand Cohn in Breslau an C. vy. Siebold. Siebold and Kélliker’s Zeit- 
schrift fiir Wissenschaft. Zoologie, XII. p. 366. 
|| Read before the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 9th April 1863. 
