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Show 366 PLANT CIIAl' .• ·. yielde 1 · r:: ()'rains w ight.; so that the lat.t r plant .. w ro more productive thn,n the nne er Cl. r. f's or .n. 1 [o~~nrt~u (' pecie frage,' 1 75, p. 3 al o ~ nnd tlus po 1 l l-l 'rtil when protect d from in e t . . P. va,qwn.-Produc d late in the summer I l nty ol d"', whi h germinated welL P. arg nwnoides . . . ·I .\ c<'nrtlin~ tn llihh•hr:lntl (' .fnlir - ) l huch l'llr w. Bot..' H. 'ii. p. ·IHli. Olau<inm lutewn (Pa.pn.\·era <.'<'-' • J ~'Jl~lnt.ltwou. ty t-:t•lr- rnWi~t·d tlowl'!'~ .AI'f!emone oclu·ol ' UCa ( Pnpiwcrn c.') . nr' b_y no ml'nn~ st ~· r i l l'. ..Adlwnia cio·ho ·n (Fnmal'ia C'c. ).-· an al undttu' of cnp nle. J fyp 'cown procumbent; ( 1 nuutria , ). IIild hr~1nd says C,id m), with respect to pr teet d flow t' , that ' m gulo :Urn 'htbildung eintret ." Fwna1·ia oj)icinuli (Fnmarin.c • ).- ov r d-np and nnprotoctc<l plant apparently procln cd an equal num r of ap ule,, and the eeds of the former eem d to the y e<Jnally goot1. I have often wat h d this plant, and has IIildcbrauo, n,nd we have n ver s n an in ect visit the fl w r . II. ~I iill r has likewise been true]- with the ra1·ity of tbe vi it:-; of iu(: 'd to it, though he ha som times n hive-h " n.t worl~. The flowers may p rhaps b vi 'ited by small motbs as 1 probably tho cu e with the followino· p ci . . F. ccql?'eolata.- ev ml large h d f tbi plant growiwr w1ld wer watched by me luring nmny days, bnt tho !low rs were never vi it d by any in cts, though rL lnuubl -bco ·was once seen cl sely to insp ct them. vNtlwl ' S~. as tho nectary contain much nc 'tar, sp iully in th ev uing, I felt convinced that th y wer vi it 1, probably by moths. The petals do not naturally s pn.rn,te r op n in tl10 1 11 t ; but th y had been opened by som means in a eertain proportion of tho flow rs, in the same mann r a follows. whe.n a thick bri tle is pushed into th n tttry; so that m th1s respect they resemble the flow r of (Yorydulis lu/('rt. Tb.irtyfonr heads, each including many flow r~, woro xamm~d, and twenty of them had from 0110 to four flowers wh1lst fourteen had not a single flower thus opened. It .i. therefore clear that somo of the flowers had been vts1ted by insects, while the majority had not; y t almo 'tall produced capsules. . , . Linum usitatissirnum (Lina c. ). - Appoar to bo qmto forti 10 • II. Hoffmann, ' ot. Z ituno·,' 1 )7G, p. GGG. , lmpati 'n~ baTbt'ge1'wm (Bal amina e, ).-Tho flowers, though ox- Ctt\1' .... ~ . PLAN'J'S FEH'l'ILJ~ \V1.1'1IO 'r lN ,.g 'l'- IJ . 3()7 <' 11 ntl~ .ndnJ)t d 1( r eros. -f'ortiliR:ti ion hy th which fr ly V1s1t th m, s 't ahn uda11tly lllHtor a nd. I. uoli-m '- fung('}'e (J3n,l nmina < ).- 'rll iL• ~ 1) c1• ,c pr· d 1 . • • " " •1 UC'C~ (' 'IH-foo '11 aucl p r(' ·t flow l'S. A plant wn cov red with a neL and ~ m' pc rC"t flow r ' rnn,rk 'd with thr n.cls . l 1 lev n ponLnn ott. ly s 'lC-flrtiliRod cn,p8111 wllic' J'1 plOt< 1 .lC <l •> ir: ' Oil ftll1 c n an a rag >. { ;J s eel . I D gl e1. d to n, 'ortain th n~l~nb r ~f s d procluc d b. p rfc t .flow r, expo eel to the V1dt Of 111 ts, but l b 'JieY it i 110t n'l'oatly in <'XCe of th abov av l'an· . l\[r. A. vV. B nnett ha carefully de ribod th tructur of th flow ' l' r I. j'nl ua in ( Jo . 1 L · , 1 1 .· · · B tuna mn. 0 . 'o . 111. ot. 1 72, p. -17. Thi ln.t,ter SI i . .l t be t rilo with its own p lion C (~ard. hroniclo :'1 saG·H 0 1~ 'G) d ·r 't ' \ ' p. . ' an I o, 1 pr , nts a rcmarlmhlo contrast with I . ba l'b(qe?·nm and 11 uli-me-trwye1·e. · L~mna:1thes doug1asi/ ( ' raniac , ).-Highly fortil . Vtscar~a oculata (CaryophyUa.ce. ).- l' clue s pl nty of ·l , With o·ood Se d , cap U ~ '~tellal'ia m dt'a ( aryopl ]] ) 0 lY a ec. .- over cl-np and nne vel' 'd ~lant P1'oduc dan equal numb l' f cap nlc~, and the so dH m both .app ar d eqna1l num l'OUH and g od. J~~t(.t uulg:w'. ( henupodinc c. ).- IlighJy elf-forti! . J tcut , atwa (Le ·nrJJino , ) -> t t ;o .- 1'0 o en and unprotected plant p:·oduced an equal numb 't' of p ds and qnally fine 'dss It there wa any diffi renee b tw n tho two lot 'the covered~ : 1P plants woro the nwst Iroductive. V. htr uta. - Tbi speci' b('ar the m II t II B .· · . · a e. owers of any ntish legununous plant. Th 1' ult of cov rino· up plant ) . . wa c .. 'actly the am a in the la t pocios. o s l t.~um satwum (L o·umiuo, c_ ). - Iilnlly ~ 1'tilo. Lath~~ru,~ odoratl;,s (L gumino"-' ).-Fully fertile. L. nts oha.-Fully f rtil . Lttp~nus lateu (Leguminos ).-Fairly productive. L. ptl~sus.~Produced plenty of pods. Unont{ mmntissimrt. (L gumiuo ' ).-Twelve perfect tlowm·s on a P. ant under a n t wore marked by tlu ad and produc c1 mght pods, containing on an averan·e 2 · 3 ' ceds p 1 prodt~ced by flower vi ited by insects would probably b~~~~ conta:ne~ on an av rage 3. GG seeds, j udgino· from the effect ) of artifiCial cross-f rtilisation. · l'l!~~l e~lus vulgm·is (Lco·umino"'ro).-Quito fm·til . 'ifolturn ar ~.; en.e (L egumm·o ~ro ) .-The e:xcessivuly small .fl0wers |
