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Cytisus scoparius

Broom. 1867. May 5

I snapped off 15 flowers & carefully examined stigma, on 8 an abundance of pollen; on 3 4 some pollen & on only 4 no pollen. The pollen reaches stigma by act of explosion, when pistil springs out of keel. —

I had kept these flowers in water for 24˚, (as the Bees snap off all) & it was quite clear that in young flowers the shorter stamens protrude as I formerly stated.

(50 pods gathered by hazard from closely adjoining bush, black with pods, contained each average of 7.14 seed.)

The Broom was extraordinarily prolific this year, hence so many set spontaneously under net.

(Dec. 39 67. The 2 crossed & 2 self-plants of exactly same age; (for germinated seeds were planted) are 1 1/4 inch & quite equal.)

(March 1. 1868. Plants now about 2 1/2 high; one of self a very little taller, but all 4 self have yellower & smaller leaves than the crossed; difference plain.)