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Acacia retinoides Ju

18th

10. 45 phyllodium stem secured

11. 34 up & to right

12. 6 gone back down parallel

12. 40 up short way

1 37 little to left & down

2. 27 right up

3 .7 considerably up

4° up do & to right

5 considerably down

6° to the left & up

7° 15 down & to left right

to old

[sketches]

9°  

10. 35

19th 6° 40'  ⨀

8°. 15

 

Great

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Mr. Hassall took pains in estimating the number of pollen-grains produced by a flower of the Dandelion (Leontodon), and found the number to be 243,600 and in a Pæony 3,654,000 grains* *Annals & Mag. of Nat.

[The text of the draft corresponds to p. 376.]

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Acacia

19th

8° 20" new dot

9. 25 new dot

10 .43 down

12 up & to right

1. 30 up

3 . 5 down

4 . 30 same spot

5 . 45 very little vertically down

7°. 12 down

8. 52 right down

9. 50

9 45 up & to right

10 45 down on old line [sketch]

20' 6°. 35  ⨀

   8. 10

Used

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flowers, [text excised]

necessitates the development of so prodigious an excess of this precious substance, why it may be asked are flowers always left open? As many plants exist throughout the vegetable kingdom which bear cleistogene flowers, there can hardly be a doubt that all open flowers [text excised]