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IT was with great interest that I read the communication from F. D. Wetterhan, in NATURE, vol. xi. p. 507. But I cannot help expressing quite a different opinion as to the bearing of the interesting fact that proterandrous and proterogynous individuals are to be found in the same locality. From the structure of the flowers and from insects never visiting the stigmas, I am convinced that the hazel is a strictly anemophilous plant; that the red colour of its stigmas is solely an effect of chemical processes connected with the development of the female flowers to maturity, just in the same manner as in the female flowers of the larch-tree and some other Coniferæ; and that likewise the coexistence of proterandrous and proterogynous individuals in the hazel relates solely to the influence of the wind, and not at all to the agency of insects.
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MÜLLER, H. Flowering of the Hazel. Nature 12, 26 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012026a0
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