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Feb 10 & 11'

Lychnis Lychnis githago nutation of hypocot stem circumnutation of hypocotyl traced from 8° 15' am Feb 10th to 12° 10' P.m Feb. 11th.

Fig 11 (1/2 scale)

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middle Part when reduced magnified 8 1/2 times

Githago Lychnis:

circumnutation of hypocotyl, obser traced on horizontal glass by means of filament fixed transversely across its filament, fro. 8.15 am to 12°15 Pm on the following day.—

Tracing magnified alm 13 times here reduce to 1/2 scale

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Chapter 0 9

They grew to an extraordinarily large size, and on August 29th were examined. At first sight they appeared entirely destitute of capsules; but on carefully searching their many branches, two or three capsules were found on three of the plants, half a dozen on the fourth, and about eighteen on the fifth plant; but all these capsules were small, some being empty; the greater number containing ed only a single seed, and very rarely more than one. After this examination the nets were taken off; and the bees immediately carried pollen from one to the other of these almost self-sterile plants, for no other plants grew near. After a few weeks the ends of the branches on all five plants became covered with capsules, presenting a curious contrast with the lower and naked parts of the same long branches. These five plants therefore inherited almost exactly the same sexual constitution as their parents; and without doubt a self-sterile race of Mignonette could have been easily established.

(Reseda lutea. Plants of this species were raised from seeds gathered from a group of wild plants growing not far at no great distances from

[Cross and self fertilisation, pp. 339-40: "They grew to an extraordinarily large size, and on August 29th were examined. At first sight they appeared entirely destitute of capsules; but on carefully searching their many branches, two or three capsules were found on three of the plants, half-a-dozen on the fourth, and about eighteen on the fifth plant. But all these capsules were small, some being empty; the greater number contained only a single seed, and very rarely more than one. After this examination the nets were taken off, and the bees immediately carried pollen from one of these almost self-sterile plants to the other, for no other plants grew near. After a few weeks the ends of the branches on all five plants became covered with capsules, presenting a curious contrast with the lower and naked parts of the same long branches. These five plants therefore inherited almost exactly the same sexual constitution as their parents; and without doubt a self-sterile race of Mignonette could have been easily established.
Reseda lutea.—Plants of this species were raised from seeds gathered from a group of wild plants growing at no great distance from my garden."]