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Aug 14 /56/ Bentham does not Know any Leguminosæ dioecious.—

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Several Legum: have different flower-pods so have violets some Helianthemums Lepidiza.— Ononis in S. Europe a striking case. & certain Malpighiaceæ

Buckman has made Parsnip cd not make carrot reverse case of Vilmorin.—

Thinks that perfect violets do not seed— of Legum. that less perfect flowers seed more abundantly than the perfect.—

If any species of Legum. have only no never Mr Bentham says abnormal flowers, such wd have been great puzzle but may be explained by the two sorts— Vid Back

Ask Bentham.

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In Ch. 8. I may introduce composite case— Begin by saying that many plants produce very different flowers, perhaps forms can come under this category, but these cases of two flowers borne by same plant, do not seem to have been a means of one form turning into another by the abortion of the one of the kinds of flowers, except perhaps in the Campanula case.—