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(Begin by making water in case at about 75° to 80° F & then put one mortar & cover with cloth which will make heat greater)

Bell-glass on 3 wooden Bricks Blocks

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I do not know whether Lepidoptera generally fly, fl keep to the flowers of the same species; but I once observed many minute moths (I believe Lampronia (Tinea) calthella) apparently eating the pollen of Mercurialis annua, and they had the whole front of their bodies covered with pollen: I then went to a female plant some yards off, and saw in the course of fifteen minutes three of these moths alight on the stigmas. Lepidoptera are probably often induced to frequent the flowers of if the flowers these having provided with

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[The text of the draft corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, p. 418.]

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Temperature

Upstairs under skylight

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= peated the experiment by planting near together two varieties of cabbage with purple-green and white-green lacinated leaves; and of the 325 seedlings raised from the purple-green variety, 165 had white-green and 160 purple-green leaves. Of the 466 seedlings raised from the white-green variety, 220 had purple-green leaves and 246 white-green leaves. These cases show how largely pollen from a neighbouring variety of the cabbage effaces the action

[The text of the draft is in the hand of Ebenezer Norman and corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, p. 393.]

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Maize

July 4'

9° a. m pinned to cork in jar with water at 80 79° F.— under Bell-glass & cloth over to fix card on in evening

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must believe this has occurred from the presence of rudimentary stamens in the flowers of some individuals, and of rudimentary pistils in the flowers of others individuals of the same species, as for example in Lychnis dioica. But a conversion of this kind will not have occurred unless cross-fertilisation was already assured, generally by the agency of insects; but why the production of male and female flowers on distinct plants should have been advantageous, cross-fertilisation

[The text of the draft corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, p. 411.]