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NATURE NOTES 
Saturday, September 14. — Bickley, roundabout Pell’s Wood and Grays 
Common. Trains leave Victoria (S.E.R.), at 2.30 p.m., Ilolborn Viaduct at 
2.25, and St. Paul’s at 2.27 p.m. Take return tickets to Bickley, 2s. from 
Victoria, is. 8d. from Holborn. Meet outside Bickley Station at 3.5 p.m. 
Guide, Mr. C. M. Muhlberg. 
Saturday, September 21. — Vi.sit to Mill Hill School. Leave King’s Cross 
2.5 p.m., or Broad Street 2. 10 p.m. for Totteridge (single tickets). Walk to Mill 
Hill School, where the party will kindly be entertained to tea, and the guide will 
give some account of Peter Collinson and Richard Antony Salisbury. After tea 
return by way of Edgware. Guide, Professor Boulger. 
Saturday, September 28. — Geological ramble round Ightham, Kent. Train 
leaves St. Paul’s Station for Wrotham at 1.17 p.m. Special cheap return tickets, 
3s. 2d. Members intending to join must write to the Excursions Secretary before 
September 25, enclosing Postal Order, 3s. 2d., and be at the station to receive 
their tickets from him ten minutes before the departure of the train. 
This completes the arrangements for the Summer Session, the Winter Excur- 
sions will start in November as usual. It is hoped that next month members will 
be permitted to attend the Annual Fungus Foray of the Essex Field Club. Details 
will appear in the October number. 
All coDwmnications with regard to Excttrsions should be addressed to Mr. 11 . 
H. Poole, Hon. Excursions Secretary, at 16, Heathcote Street, W.C. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
George Murray. — The common Milkwort {Polygala vulgaris). See Johns’ 
“ Flowers of the Field,” 29th Edition, p. 93. 
Major C. Vipan. — Euonymus japonicus geneially blossoms on our southern 
coasts and on the opposite shore, though not in the London area. 
Peter Hastie. — It is impossible to name the Sedge from your description. 
Triangular stems are the rule in the group. The plant sent from Newland’s 
Corner in Epipactis media. 
Mrs. Lacey. — Probably wet weather after the formation of flower-buds does 
tend to produce “vegetative” malformations such as the “ hen-and-chicken ” 
you send. Can you send some normal specimens ? 
Miss Brinkley. — Agrimonia Eupatoria, the Common Agrimony. It con- 
tains tannin and has some astringent tonic properties, but none to justify its 
former repute. A decoction made with wine is, says Parkinson, “good against 
the stings and bitings of serpents.” 
E. H.— Your plant is undoubtedly Carduus heterophyllus, a variable species. 
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