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IN a recent number of NATURE Mr. Bennett makes some remarks on the above. What he says leads to the belief that the male flowers of any one plant discharge their pollen just at the very time the stigmas of the female flowers of the same plant are receptive. My observations made this spring, and extending over a number of specimens, quite agree with those of Mr. Marcus Hartog, and therefore break through Mr. Bennett's law, and show that although the hazel is apparently monœcious, yet, practically, it is diœcious. On one plant which I pointed out to several gentlemen, the fertile flowers had their pretty red styles protruded beyond the scales and the receptive stigmas long before a grain of pollen was discharged from the adjoining catkins, whilst on another plant a hundred yards distant from the first all the barren flowers were withered up and ready to fall before the females could be seen.
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DUNCAN, J. Fertilisaton of Hazel. Nature 3, 509 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003509b0
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