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Tom: 5. p. 440 "M. Raspail Class Gen: des Graminées" - no grass has so great a disposition to modify its floral organization as Nastus - & has given rise to many genera; [by exchanges] - so that N. borbonica might serve to make a family with sufficiently numerous genera & tribes.

[in margin:] Hooker says [few words illeg]

[M. Raspail. 1825. Classification générale des Graminées, etc. Annales des sciences naturelles, vol. 5: 433-460.]

Tom 6 p 134 Aug. St. Hilaire - says Buttneria has only two ovules wh present - this singular

character that are "d' être l'un ascendant et l'autre suspendu" (& Kunth in another species in six Brazilian species)

(I believe this is generally a most important character & shows how one may pass into another without gradual transition) (a)

[Auguste de Saint-Hiliare. 1825. Comparaison des genres Buttneria et Commersonia. Annales des sciences naturelles, vol. 6: 134-138.]

Tom 7. p 65 Lamouroux sur la Geographie des Plantes marines - some few hydrophites [hydrophytes] common to immense distances southern & northern region; "this is more common with plants of fresh-water than those of sea". How strange what can cause be - object clear, from isolation of sheets of fresh-water - Do fish eat seeds.?

[in margin:] NB they eat grain thrown in water.

[M. Lamouroux. 1826. Mémoire sur la Géographie des plantes marines. Annales des sciences naturelles, vol. 7: 60-82.]

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(a) This difference wd be very strange in two allied species, but perhaps not in genus

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Tom 7. p 170. Dr Mayer sur les membres postériurs des Ophidiens. - finds them far more common to order than supposed (good figures for woodcuts) (Hence snake descended from quadruped or biped)

Little bones furnished with muscles & can move - & the Bora of Bengal said to use them as defensive weapon - they are not rudiments in Anguis of pelvis, but of legs - in Anguis whole little limb under the skin, muscular system very feeble.

p 183 Amphistœna has rudiment of bone, with cartilaginous rudiment of nail, which is also buried under skin. In Coluber pullatus a filament of cartilage, last vestige - in C. berus & Cortalus & all other venomous snakes no trace whatever - (p 188. some relation with length of tail)

[M. le docteur Mater. 1826. Sur les membres postériurs des Ophidiens. Annales des sciences naturelles, vol. 7: 170-191.]

7 / 344 Is G. St. Hilaire remarks - Hens sometimes have spurs, but besides being smaller, they are of very unequal size on two legs; sometimes only on one leg. (abnormal & variable)

This very peculiar form of rudimentary or nascent organ

[Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hiliare. 1826.Sur des femelles de faisans à plumage de males; etc. Annales des sciences naturelles, vol. 7: 336-349.]

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In Decandolle paper on Cruciferae, I think he specially states no Transition in the radicle from one form to another