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NATURE NOTES 
Saturday. June 2. — No ramble, on account of the Whitsuntide holiday. 
Saturday , June g . — Details will appear in the June number. 
Projected Arrangements . — It is hoped that on July 7 Dr. Willson will lead a 
ramble in the Weybridge district, that on July 21 Mr. Westell will again act 
as guide, and that on July 28 Mr. Webb will conduct an excursion, most probably 
to Iver Water Splash. 
All communications with regard to Excursions should be addressed to Mr. 
II. II. Poole, Hon. Secretary of the Excursions Committee, at 16, Heathcote 
Street, W.C. 
Branches. 
Abinger and Shere . — A walk will be taken on Saturday, May 19, from 
Gomshall Station to Abinger Common, under the guidance of Professor Boulger, 
and Mrs. Gilbert Redgrave kindly offers her house as the centre for tea. The 
meeting place will be Gomshall Station at 2.34 p.m. and any Selbornians not 
belonging to this branch who wish to join the party are requested to give notice a 
week beforehand to Mrs. Redgrave, Grove Dale, Abinger Common, Dorking. 
Ealing . — Members of the Ealing Branch may, by permission, attend the 
excursion of the Ealing Scientific and Microscopical Society to Eton College on 
Saturday, May 12. The party will go by the train leaving Paddington at 2.30 
and calling at Ealing Broadway at 2.43. Cheap tickets may be obtained. Those 
who desire to take part in the excursions should remit 2s. (to cover the cost of 
tea and additional charges) to the Hon. Secretary of the Ealing Scientific and 
Microscopical Society, Mr. F. MacNeil Rushforth, at 133, The Grove, Ealing, 
W. , not later than Tuesday, May 8. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Mrs. Needham. — The shrub with narrow, pointed leaves in opposite pairs 
is Phillyrea angustifolia L. ; that with broader leaves and white flowers is 
Myoporum acuminatum, Br., introduced from Australia ; the somewhat downy 
plant with withered flowers is a Cistus, possibly C. monspeliensis ; and the other 
plant is Helleborus fcetidus L. Please number your specimens another time. 
W. M. Scott. — Such “ fasciations ” as those you send are not uncommon 
in the Dandelion. See Masters’s “Vegetable Teratology,” p. 17. 
Rev. W. D. Wood Rees. — The Black Currant buds seem to be affected 
with the Currant Mite, Eriophyes ribis, Westw. See Journ. Linn. Soc. Zoo!., 
xxviii., 366. 
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