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p. 122 M. M. E. Germain de St Pierre says central floret of carrot is not strictly central (but this is disputed) variable, only occasionally red, sometimes sterile, but when red is generally more vigorous & fertile.

[Germain de St Pierre, E. 1854. Observations sur la structure de l'ombellule et de la fleur dite centrale dans le genre Daucus, et particulièrement chez le Daucus carota. Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 1: 121-125.]

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p. 136 M. James Lloyd author of the Flora de la Loire inférieure says that the same species become less vigorous in going Northwards.

[Anon. 1854. [Review of] J. Lloyd, Flore de l'ouest de la France. Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 1: 135-137.]

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p. 162 M. de Melicocq observations on a variety of Pyrola rotundifolia which grows on banks of canals & flowers much later than the common form. It has never varied in this respect for 12 years. It cannot have grown where it now grows before the present century. It seldom sets seeds.

[La Fons, A. 1854. Observations sur une variété du Pyrola rotundifolia. Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 1: 162-163.]

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p. 195 Dr Clos dissertation on the influence which the sexes of plants exercises on their structure.
(I have ordered this book)

[Clos, Dominique. 1854. Dissertation sur l'influence qu'exerce dans les plantes la différence des sexes sur le reste de l'organisation, suivie de l'examen des deux sortes de diclinismes. impr. J.-M. Douladoure.]

Bull. Soc Bot 1855 vol. 2

p 76. Dr Clos on flowers of ombelliferoe in Diposis & in 2 other genera the middle flower is alone fertile, whereas Myrrhis the central flowers are male. In Hermas it is the reverse.

[Clos, Dominique. 1855. L'Ombelle, inflorescence définie et indéfinie. Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 2: 74-78.]

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