856 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
This is entirely apart from the budding process. Another 
feature worthy of notice was that the severed tentacles lived 
and carried out their usual functions for several days, when 
I suddenly lost them whilst changing the water in which they 
were placed. — H. E. Hurrell, Great Yarmouth. 
Unusual number of Woodcocks. — More Woodcocks were 
shot in Norfolk during the autumn of 1908 than has been 
the case for many a year, December in particular being 
a very productive month. Their abundance was probably 
owing to an extra good breeding season in Sweden and 
Norway, where Mr. Pratt informs me the close time now 
runs from March 15th to August ?5th, as enacted by recent 
legislation which came into force on the 1st of January of 
the present year. I took some trouble to make a list of some 
of the best bags of Woodcocks in Norfolk, of which the 
principal were : 
November nth, 1908. Twenty-five shot at Sheringham. 
December 1st, 1908. Forty-two shot at Swanton. 
December 3rd, 1908. Nineteen shot at Swanton. 
December 4th, 1908. Twenty-four shot at Swanton. 
December 5th, 1908. Twenty-two shot at Felbrigge. 
December 14th, 1908. Twenty-five shot at Hanworth. 
December 14th, 1908. Seventeen shot at Gimmingham. 
December 25th, 1908. Seventeen shot at Stratton 
Strawless. 
December 30th, 1908. Nineteen shot at Witton. 
December 31st, 1908. Sixteen shot at Runton. 
Besides the above, there were many smaller bags, so the 
aggregate number of Woodcocks killed in the County must 
have been very large. Up to January 18th, 1909. the season 
had produced one hundred and thirty-three at Somerleyton, 
and ninety-six at Felbrigge. About the end of March a 
considerable number were observed in the vicinity of Cromer 
on their return passage, which must have been towards the 
north-east. — J. H. Gurney, Keswick. 
Azolla caroliniana. — Wliilst staying at Woodbastwick in 
1908, during August and September, 1 found great quantities 
