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Saw in Batemans Orchideae, beautiful plate of Cycnoches Egertonianum, which in Guatemala produced & once in England a scape dark purple of a totally different species of Cycnoches, but generally in England scapes of the common Cycnoches ventricosum yellow & much larger, (Really these facts are too much for my theory) It wd appear as if in this country it reverted to C. ventricosum. How is this idea applicable in the other cases? C. ventricosum seeds itself, so not sexual distinction. -

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[Orchids, p. 224 n: "Mr. Bateman also says that C. egertonianum has been known to produce in Guatemala and once in England scapes of a purple-flowered and widely different species of Cycnoches; but that it generally produces in England scapes of the common yellow C. ventricosum."]

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of commonest weeds think 10 fold as many there introduced??? In England the history not so well known. Decandolle much better

Mem. Cybele of Watson - Probably or perhaps number introduced into islands only more apparent

Barbacenia, a small but very distinct natural order of Brazil; but there are two species of a genus in this same order in Madagascar. — a great anomaly in distribution but here perhaps smallness & distinctness of order implies much extinction. The fragmentary order implies antiquity & much extinction & hence a chance of former wide distribution.

The Robinsonia of Juan Fernandez, which has flowers of same sex of two different forms, ar[remainder excised]

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