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Jan 1841 R. Brown

disbelieves hybrid ferns – Grasses some & other Cryptogamic (or I believe he said Cryst. generally?) He thinks are truly bisexual & the sexes vary as much as in [phanær] plants – hermaphrodite stimulus exception – It Vancluse on bed of [illeg] periodically covered from much moss the young male & female plants in equal state of forwardness – Valentines !!! objection in Linn. Transact to sexes of mosses –

Brown thinks not of weight – Valentine rests on male organ & female not becoming mature at the same time – but B says semen may not on this apparently immature female org – or like cabbage-butterfly (also Bells spider) have some receptacle = pollen acts on ovule at different periods in diff. plants, - thinks appearance of stigma not guide.

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Australian female tree has produced fertile seeds -

not hybrids no male flowers – In a cone not all seeds impregnated, but the effect of impregnation seems felt all over cone so that its symmetry is preserved – Pr… Analogous  to Lond moretius male case

His wonderful account of Asclepias has been confirmed by account from India by Mr Griffiths

Vinca not true Asclepias

Orchis, if they do not require, almost do – bees – this degree of adhesion being less between pellets of pollen, those between outside & busily – allows one to impregnate many stigmas – this is fine case of adaption.