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Henslow. Oct. 1841

Common Groundsill — Senecio. sometimes has florets in disc on margin all rest of genus have marginal florets — has tendency to become Diœcious = Tussilago has tendency to become diœcious. (5)

(Q) Centaurea nigra — all over Berkshire all have discal florets; = at least no true nigrens could be found & no other difference & in rest of England without any — Kept habit when transplanted.

[Quoted in Natural selection, (F1583) p. 125.]

Bidens sim sernua & tripartita Henslow has found clump got them with ray. = Aster f tripolium has as often ray as without =

All Lychnis dioica in Wales red in Cambridgeshire all white. Suffolk & Staffordshire both colours.

Leontodon taraxacum. — Hooker makes six species, mostly given up even by Babington─ yet Henslow has found S. palustre come up true for 3 or 4 generations in his garden — yet not from finding intermediate forms in Ferns he is sure not true species. —

(Q)