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Dahlia 18th June

10° first dot

10. 30' greatly down, but very oblique

11. 35 down & to right— so more inclined impossible to be accurate

12° 42 risen

1 . 37 up

2 . 27 up little

3 . 7 up (brighter — day)

4 . do

5 greatly up

6° 5. do

7° . 15 fallen

9° up .

10. 35 on wood frame

19' . 6° 40' ⨀ on wood

new dot pushed stick

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Hist.─ Vol VII. 1842, p 108.) The editor of the Botanical Register counted the ovules in the flowers of Wisteria sinensis, and carefully estimated the number of pollen-grains, and he found that for each ovule there were 7000 grains* (*Quoted in Gard. Chron. 1846, p. 771).

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Dahlia

first mark on other Paper

8° 20   new dot

19th

9 25 same course

10. 43 down & to left

12 down & to right

1. 30 perpendicularly & far down

2. 15 down

3. 5 do

4. 30 do a little to left

5. 45 vertically down

7. 15 far down — dot a guess

8. 10 far up

8 50 up

9 50 down & to left

10. 45 down & to right

20 6° 35' ⨀

  8. 10

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might easily have been converted into closed ones. The graduated steps by which this process could have been effected may be seen at the present time in Lathyrus nissolia and Biophytum sensitivum. The answer to our the above question obviously is that with permanently closed flowers there