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Tom. 5. Observ sur les rapports &c par M. G. de Buzaringues

p. 42  colours of father & mother mix instead of blending, when colours much contrasted - the mixture instead of blending is more common on trunk than on anterior extremity of head & on extremities - spots of colour on head often hereditary.

p 42. thinks female offspring take after father & male after mother (& so in true Mule) Thus cross of tailess with common fowls, more tailess hen-chicken than took after the tailess cock.

p. 48 from date of 100 years. M. M. Bailly says "great years of dearth coincide with the least numbers of conceptions" Doubleday!! (small ears of corn in poor land)

I must quote in note in Chapt. 3.

[Girou de Buzaringues. Observations sur les rapports de la Mère et du Père avec les produits, relativement au sexe et à la resemblance. 1825. Annales des sciences naturelles,  vol. 5: 21-50.]

p. 291. M. Raspail says if a New Zealand Bot were to act, as ours have done, near Paris he cd make 20 species out of Poa annua & Draba verna

[Raspail. 1825. Classification générale des graminées, etc. Annales des sciences naturelles,  vol. 5: 287-311.]

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Tom. 5. p. 353 "Mem: sur l'Alternance &c par M. Dureau de la Malle - quotes du Petit-Thomas when forest cut down in Mauritius, the soil is covered by new species chiefly aboriginals of Madagascar & other foreign land, especially by Rubus roseus from the Moluccas.

p. 374 shows from mud thrown out of Mill-dam, that seeds of mustard retain under water vitality for 20 years; & in woods he believes for 100 years says in heaths on same spots he has seen turn in turn, Erica vulgaris, ciliaris, tetralix, & cinerea, & Vaccinium acquiring the predominance: (I suppose he has not overlooked diff. of seasons.)

(I have seen something of this at Moor Park)

p 375 fields of Sainfoin & Lucerne are not attacked by their congeners, or even by Leguminosæ - the gramineæ are their chief enemies - accounts for it by alternating vigour of different crops or rotation.

p 378 in high, isolated, natural pasture land, has seen during 30 years 5 or 6 times Gramineæ & Leguminosæ turn & turn predominates same law applicable to underwood

[Dureau de la Malle. 1825. Mémoire sur l'Alternance ou sur ce problème: la succession alternative dans la reproduction des espèces végetales vivant en société, est-elle une loi générale del a nature? Annales des sciences naturelles,  vol. 5: 353-381.]