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 112 SHORT NOTES AND ftUERlES.

Kew. The main part of the saddle is simply made of the plaited stems of Scirpus Tabei'Hcemontani. The inside is partly lined with Cyperusloiigus, but in its natural state merely dried ; nor could I ascertain that any of the fibre as described by Prof. Ansted was manufactured. The ordinary rope used in the island is made of coir or jute. I noticed that bands of the Ci/perus were used in tying up sheaves of barley, instead of, as cus- tomary in England, a band of the same plant as the sheaf. — VV. T. Thiselton Dyer.

��Fertilization. — We very much want a term to express the falling of the pollen on the stigma (the German Bestdubung'). In ordinary text- books no distinction is drawn between this and fertilization ; but Darwin and Hildebrand have clearly shown that frequently when the stigma is be-poUened from its own stamens (Selbst Bestaubung), the pollen is still carried to other flowers by insects, so that cross-fertilization takes place. Can any of your readers suggest a better term than " poUenization " ? — A. W. Bennett.

Perianth (p. 54). — I am glad Mr. Grindon has called attention to this term ; it has always seemed to me a wholly useless (and therefore undesirable) one, and one that ought to be abolished. Why should we not speak of the calyx and corolla of a tulip or iris as much as of a water-lily ? We are told that there is no organic distinction between calyx and corolla, and that they can only be distinguished by their position. If so Rmnex and Polygonum are distinctly di-chlamydeous, possessed of a true calyx and corolla. — A. W. Bennett.

��JuNCUS HosTii, Tausch. — In Gay's herbarium there is a specimen of a rush sent by Dr. Greville from Braeriach, which is refeiTed by Gay to the Juncus Hostii of Tausch, and which is evidently substantially iden- tical with the plants given under that name in Keichb. Exsicc. n. 1614, P. Schultz, Herb. Norm. n. 53, and F. Schultz, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. n. 1333. Along with it Gay writes, " Ab simillimo J. trijido differt culmis 1-2-foliatis non aphyliis." A full description will be found in Koch's ' Synopsis,' where it is placed as a distinct species ; but although I have not yet looked specially to see, I believe that it will be found that Scotch specimens have stem-leaves developed not unfrequently.— J. G. Baker.

Chlorea vulpina, Z., and Evernia divaricata, i., are recorded as British lichens, but without special locality, in some early volume of the • Phytologist.' Can any lichenist permit me the sight of British speci- mens? or sive further information as to localities? — W. A. Leighton.

��Vaccinium ViTis-lDiEA AND Empetrum NIGRUM. — I was much interested in Mr. Bagnall's notice (p. 51) of the occurrence of these plants on Cannock Chase and Sutton Coldfield, as it recalled to me that they occur with V. Myrtillus and V. Oxycoccus and Lislera cordata on our only Shropshire subalpine locality, Stiperstones Mountain (loOO-lfiOO feet). Empetrum. nigrum, F.Myrlillus and V. Oxycoccus occur plentifully on other Shropshire hills and bogs, but never, so far as I am aware, in con- junction with F. Fitis-Idaa and Listera cordata. What is the height

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