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when we see them in a more startled easy ready excite or startled on one day than on another day, we attribute it to the state of the nervous system; & it is familiar to everyone that an animal feeding or otherwise equally occupied has is less ready aroused to  conscious of sundry [illeg] any or danger, than at other times.— & by the facts given   I can see no reason to doubt that the same consideration ought to be applied to worms; as the higher animals.— namely that the nervous system is less easily excited, so exert a sense of danger at some periods than of others, & that when occupied they pay less attention to external [illeg], than of other times.—

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maximum of 3 seeds in any one capsule. So that the crossed and self-fertilised pods capsules from the perfect flowers yielded seeds in the proportion of 100 to 65. Fifty-three capsules produced by the cleistogene flowers, contained on an average 4.1 seeds; so that these were the most productive of all; and the seeds themselves looked finer even than those from the crossed perfect flowers.

The seeds from the crossed perfect flowers and from the self-fertilised cleistogene flowers were allowed to germinate on sand; but unfortunately only two pairs germinated at the same time. These were planted on