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Chap. E 10

Euryale ferox (Nymphaeaceæ) Prof. Caspary informs me that this plant is highly self-fertile when insects are excluded. He remarks In in the paper before referred to under Victoria regia that his plants (as well as those of the Victoria regia) produce only one flower at a time; and that as this species is an annual, and was introduced in 1809, it must have been self-fertilised for the last 56 generations; but Dr. Hooker informs assures me that to his knowledge it has been repeatedly introduced, a and that at Kew the same plant both of the Euryale and of the Victoria produce several flowers at the same time.

Nymphæa,  (do), some species, as I am informed by the same botanist Prof. Caspary, are quite self-fertile when insects are excluded.

Adonis æstivalis (Ranunculaceæ) produces, according to Prof. H. Hoffmann (Speciesfrage p. 11), produces plenty of seeds when protected from insects.

Ranunculus acris (do). formed produces plenty of seeds under a net.