[532] Smith's Introduction to Botany, 195.
[533] Mouffet, 319.
[534] Smith's Tracts, 165. Kölreuter, Ann. of Bot. ii. 9.
[535] Chr. Conr. Sprengel Entdecktes Geheimniss, &c. Berlin 1793, 4to. quoted in Ann. of Bot. i. 414.
[536] Grundriss der Kräuterkunde, 353. A writer however in the Annual Medical Review (ii. 400.) doubts the accuracy of this fact, on the ground that he could never find C. pennicornis, though A. Clematitis has produced fruit two years at Brompton. Meigen (Dipt. i. 100. e.) places this amongst his doubtful Cecidomyiæ. Fabricius considers it as a Chironomus.
[537] I have frequently observed Dermestes flavescens, Ent. Brit. (Byturus) eat both the petals and stamens of Stellaria Holosteum; and Mordellæ will open the anthers with the securiform joints of their palpi to get at the pollen.
[538] Hasselquist's Travels, 253. Latr. Hist. Nat. xiii. 204.
[539] Willd. Grundriss, 352.
[540] Phil. Trans. xlvi. 536.
[541] Walpole in Clarke's Travels, ii. 187. Even Mr. Boyle speaks with abhorrence of eating raw oysters. Walton's Angler, Life, p. 12.