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Annales du Museum (1804). Tom IV
p.102 . E. Geoffroy sur des Chiens-mulets

These were produced from she wolf & dog; they took, most strikingly, both when first born & afterwards after the dog — Buffon states that his cross also took most after father dog. (This is against an old race having most effect in a cross.) — The puppies resembled each other except in colour. —

p. 388. Sur un Gateau du ruche d'une abeille &c par Latreille. — the Bee of Gènes & Egypte is a distinct species! recognizes no essential difference in bees of S. Europe Spain Portugal &c. — In a true Bee from India, cells of comb smaller than in Europaean Bee & some in part of different shape & size — Reaumur thought the size of cells of our bees so uniform, that he proposed it as standard of measurement! "J'ai vu une position de gateau d'une ruche de notre abeille domestique transplantée a S. Domingue, et il m'a paru, que ses cellules etoient ici un peu

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plus grandes, que celles des gateaux de nos ruches d'Europe." — We have seen that size is a point in which Indian species differ, — in other respects being identical (except also in the larger barely hexagonal cells in one part).

Tom VI 1804 ? p. 185 Thouin says, that by cultivating alpine plants on stages facing N.E they flourish, & propagate either by grains or by roots, — in common earth they languish & perish in few years.

p.310 Sur les caracteres generaux de familles tires des graines &c. par. A. L. de Jussieu

p.311. The Hyoseris radiata, presents at the circumference, the interior & centre, three different forms of seeds.

p 319. Carthamus lanatus has only 2 or 3 graines centrales aigrettées, surrounded by grain naked or covered with few hairs. These observations indicate a progressive abortion of the aigrette, which is only partial in C. creticus, more extensive in C. lanatus, complete in C. tinctorius.(These facts show how a

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Mr. D. Beaton in Cottage Gardener 1861 remarks that no man ever saw doublng of a composite flower appear from centre to circumference — always travels from latter to centre as it progresses. —
Good Law.
Manner of Transition

Composite plant may alter its character, not by each individual floweret changing at same time, but by a progressive change going on from circumference to centre. This is only a hypothetical or possinle way — we do not know that in these individual species, the degree of abortion varies.