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Feb. 22' Oak [American]

illuminated from above — Hor-glass [sketch]

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The long-styled plants generally tend to flower a little before the short-styled: for instance I had twelve plants of each form, growing in separate pots & treated in every respect alike; & at the time when only a single short-styled plant was in flower, seven of the long-styled had expanded their flowers.

We shall, also, presently see that the short-styled plants produce more seed than the long-styled. It is remarkable, according to Prof. Oliver* (*Nat. Hist. Review July 1862 p. 237) that the ovules in the unexpanded & unimportant flowers of the latter are considerably larger than those of the short-style flowers; & this I suppose is connected with the long-styled flowers producing fewer seeds, so that the ovules have more space & nourishment for rapid development.)

[Forms of flowers, pp. 16-17: "The long-styled plants generally tend to flower a little before the short-styled: for instance. I had twelve plants of each form growing in separate pots and treated in every respect alike; and at the time when only a single short-styled plant was in flower, seven of the long-styled had expanded their flowers.
We shall, also, presently see that the short-styled plants produce more seed than the long-styled. It is remarkable, according to Prof. Oliver,* that the ovules in the unexpanded and unimpregnated flowers of the latter are considerably larger than those of the short-styled flowers; and this I suppose is connected with the long-styled flowers producing fewer seeds, so that the ovules have more space and nourishment for rapid development."]