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Satureia hortensis. Summer Savoy. July 29.62

I raised 11 Plants, one alone had perfect anthers purple ie was Hermaphrodite. The 10 others were female. The only difference in pistils was that in female they were a shade longer. Largely visited by Humble & Hive Bees ─ In pot in greenhouse─ Culture under heat perhaps must have increased the Females.─ See about seeding ─ Case exactly like Thyme. ─ Anthers of female a more colourless transparent double double membrane.─ Winter Savoy S. Montana grew near. (all the latter sp. are Hermaphrodite but perhaps all propagated from same one plant.)

It is very interesting that this one hermaphrodite plant sufficed to fertilise all the ↘

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10 female plants. The hermaphrodite was the finest plant of lot; & all its seeds weighed 33.2 gr. ─ A fine female plant, (of which all the pods were out, I believe quite clearly picked) had seed weighing 78.0 g, ie more than double ─ showing how fully it was fertilised. This greater fertility was due to more heads producing seed, for about an equal number of heads produced nearly equal weight of seed. Capital division of labour.

See the note-Book for case of Thyme.─