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be merely local. The clean sharp line of demarcation seen in 
ordinary parasitic Mistleto on apple or other wood is entirely 
wanting. 
The plant from which the above branch was cut is, I understand 
from Mr. Corderoy, about twenty years old, and of three to four 
feet in diameter. It grows on an apple tree, and is the sole 
instance of such androgynism on that tree, which, however, bears 
several other Mistleto plants. 
Mr. Corderoy states that the other specimens sent were 
female shoots which appeared on male plants; but as the 
specimens handed to me had been unfortunately mutilated, I 
cannot add further details. 
It is perhaps worth noticing that the character of the above 
described specimen is exactly the reverse of one mentioned by 
Dr. Masters, in his Vegetable Teratology , p. 509, of which he 
says :—“ The plant was of the male sex, with numerous long 
slender whip-like branches, with large broad yellowish leaver 
and fully developed male flowers at the end.” From the base 
of this, he says, proceeded a tuft of short female branches. 
In the example sent by Mr. Corderoy the whip-like branches 
are female, but no distinction of leaf is to be seen; nor is any 
difference to be relied upon between the foliage of the male 
and that of the female plants of Viscum album generally. 
In the case he has described, Dr. Masters has also concluded 
that it was due to androgynism and not to parasitism. 
Gumming in Orange Trees. —Dr. M. C. Cooke exhibited twigs 
of Orange trees from Florida covered with a resinous exudation, 
which it was supposed might be analogous to the gumming of 
fruit trees. 
Vegetable Remains from Ancient River Gravels .—Mr. Worthing¬ 
ton Gr. Smith returned to this subject. He stated that he had 
obtained results from the Valley of the Lark, near Bury 
St. Edmunds, similar to the remains previously found by him 
in the gravels of the Lea and Axe; they consisted of leaf 
fragments, seeds, rootlets, hairs, and fragments of bone. 
Exactly similar results had followed his minute examination of 
breccia from the bone- cave near the village of Les Eyzies, in 
the Valley of Vezere, Dordogne. This breccia afforded frag¬ 
ments of plant-stems (grasses), minute splinters of wood and 
bone, and numerous hairs. Mr. Smith exhibited the wood, 
