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July 10th 1863. Bee Ophrys from coarse grassy field.

Plant	flowers	Both pollinia in anther case	Both poll on stigma	Both Pollinia gone	One pollinia gone
1	3	3
1	2	1 anther in 1 on stigma	1
1	4	2	1 on stigma} 1 gone} 1 do} 1
1	3	3 on pair dropping
1	4	2 but one dropping	1 stigma 1 dropping} 1 do} 1
1	2		1 1 cut off} 1
1	4	1 anther 1 on stigma} withered	3
14		3		cut away

 

July 16th I examined some more - most pods set well; yet in some few only one pollinia dropped out; & in several the pollinia had not dropped out of uppermost flower.

July 23 I kept two spikes for 9 days in water till they withered & the pollinia did not fall out of 4 flowers!

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[bird, cat, Curcilio, fly, pig, pigeon, rabbit, silkworm, gooseberry, grass, Hyacinth, mountain ash, nut, parasitic fungus, Pelargonium, rye, Verbena, walnut, Bechstein, Gilbert, Lewis[?], Prichard]

Colour [illeg] Pigs –

Colours most trifling character.

White pigeons – white cats. – White rabbit.

We [illeg] [illeg] flies, genera [illeg] Bechstein - Lewis Prichard

White [illeg], there about colour from most.-

Eyes with blueness colour affect many Verbena & Pelargonium.

White [illeg] [illeg] for [illeg] to [illeg] what fat gaper -

Colour & [illeg] [illeg] plants Black [illeg]. - [illeg]

[illeg] by [illeg] c parasites longer [illeg] to Verbena colour of grapes - colour of silk-worms)

what red Hyacinths

[illeg] fruit trees - colour of flesh. - Curculio

Colour of fruit attractive to birds.- yellow & red very [illeg]. Mountain-Ash. Turkey Rye 2. vars.

Leafing [illeg] of chart.

soft-coloured [illeg] same case peculiarities Zilbert & runt.

White-fruit gooseberry leaves.