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Oxalis Carnosa flower-peduncle

Ap. 22d same old flowers as before with straw fixed transversely

A flower peduncle bent vertically down with straw fixed transversely across base of calyx

9°  35' a.m    first dot

9° a.m.

            9' 35    same spot

10° 10'    an atom left 10. 10    fallen a little bit

11.    same spot           11°    same spot

12' 50    risen a little   12° 50    fallen a little

2. 25    nearly same spot         2° 25.    do    do

4°    same spot             4°. 5    fallen

6°    almost same spot             6    fallen a good deal

8' 30 .   do      8° 30'    fallen since sub-peduncle has become greatly inverted or beyond perpendicular— still no plain circumnutation

10. 45    do      10. 45    fallen    ie more inverted

23rd 6°. 40' am    little to right           23d 6° 40'    risen !

7° 45    a trace fallen, not marked      — 7. 45    do considerably

4°    a good bit fallen & to right         8 35    up vertically

5°    gone down a little           9. 15'    not marked nearly same spot

6°    down an atom      10. 10    do    do    do

7. 20    do    do            11. 25    a little to right & up

8. 30    do    do            12. 35    an atom up

10. 30    same spot      2°. 10'    —same spot..

            4°    do

            5    gone down considerably

            6° 10    fallen . do    do (parallel this mean sub-peduncle turning laterally

            7. 20    still down

            8.30    down & little to left

            9. 35    atom lower

            10. 30    same place } as far as I cd see

24       

6° 50'    fallen 6°. 50'    risen greatly

9°    fallen    ⨀ with ring        9°    risen a bit

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with pollen from the foregoing purple variety, and these produced 11 and 22 seeds which germinated well. A large number of the stigmas on several of the other corymbs were repeatedly smeared with pollen from their own corymb; but they yielded only five very poor seeds, which were incapable of germination. Therefore the above three plants belonging to two varieties, though growing vigorously, and reciprocally fertile with pollen from one another, were utterly sterile with pollen from one another with pollen from other flowers on the same plant.)

Reseda odorata.—Having observed that certain individuals were self-sterile, I covered during the summer of 1868 seven plants under separate nets, and will call these plants A, B, C, D, E, F, G. They all appeared to be quite sterile with their own pollen, but fertile with that of any other plant.)

(Fourteen plants flowers on A were crossed with pollen from B or C, and produced 13 fine capsules. (lead on) Sixteen flowers were fertilised with pollen from other flowers on the same plant, but yielded not a one single capsule.