101

Total of Crossed & Self-fert Individuals

Crossed Tab I.	Self
715	708
8 Thunbergia	8
18 Eschotzia	19
7 Res lute	8
19	19
8 R. odorata	8 R odorata
8 do	8
15	10 Dianthus
[total] 780 First. Table	769 First Table
[+] 217 Fresh flower	202 Fresh flower
[=] 997 Grand Total	971
8 subtract for R. odora	Subtract 8 for R. odorata
989 Grand Total	963

989 [+] 963 [=] 1952

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(Mammalia Hair)

it is not probable that the beard has been acquired for a different purpose from that , for which the whiskers, moustaches & other tufts of hair on the faces of monkeys have been developed; & these can hardly serve as a protection. Must we attribute such hairy & other analogous masculine appendages to mere purposeless useless function useless

variability? This is possible; for with the male of some of several several some of our domesticated quadrupeds, certain characters, which thy have not inherited from their parent-species, have appeared are present in the males alone, or are more developed in the male than in the female,— Thus as the hump in the male Zebra, the tail in fat-tailed sheep rams the arched outline of the forehead in the males of several breeds of sheep, the mane in the rams of an African sheep, breed , & lastly the presence of a mane, long hairs on the hinder thighs & a dewlap in the male alone of the Berbura goat. & their absence in the female of this goat.*(40) Now although we ought always to be extremely cautious in concluding, as shown in my work on Variation under Domestication, that any character, even with animals kept by semi civilised people, has not been subjected [illeg] selection, yet this is not probable with