Volume 1

The collected papers of Charles Darwin / edited by Paul H. Barrett ; with a foreword by Theodosius Dobzhansky.

  • Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Date:
1977
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    Lindleyana was killed by a month's immersion. Apium graveolens ( var . Cattell's white): after 137 days only 6 seeds out of some hundreds germinated; after 85 days the seeds germinated excellently; they did not appear to germinate quite so well after 82 days in the cold water (*). Daucus carota: a very few germinated after 85 days; after only 56 days 3/30 grew (*). 1. [Read 6 May 1856.] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Botany ) 1(1857):130-40.T 2. Alphonse de Candolle, Géographie Botanique Raisonnée, ou, Exposition des faits Principaux et des lois Concernant la Distribution Géographique des Plantes de l'époque Actuelle, 2 vols. (Paris: Masson, 1855).t 3. Sept. 1st, 1855. 4. May 26th and Nov. 24th, 1855. 5. Sinapis: a small, Old World genus, including the white mustard.t 6. Convolvulus: a genus of climbing herbs, for example, morning glory, bindweed.! 7. Tussilago: an asteraceous herb.f 8. Genus of ornamental flowers from western America.! 9. Stem develops inwardly; obsolete class of plants of Lindley; included monocotyledons. ! 10. Stem grows by addition of rings on the outside; obsolete class of plants of Lindley; included dicotyledons.! 11. Rhubarb.! 12. Godron in his Florula Juvenalis, p. 16, states that the seeds of some plants, as of Atriplex and certain Gramineae, germinate perfectly in salt-marshes, where they have been immersed during all the winter under salt water. 13. Mostly herbs, hollow internodes, stout stems, flowers in umbels.! 14. Loiseleur-Deslongchampssays(Consid. sur les Céréales, Part ii. p. 234) that in wheat put into water the embryo comes out in the course of two days; as Mr. Berkeley's wheat survived after 30 days' immersion in sea-water, one may suspect that in this case, the seed would survive longer under sea-water than under fresh water. 15. Waterleaf family; includes Phacelia.f 16. Family mostly of herbaceous plants with handsome flowers; includes Phlox and Gilia.J 17. John Lindley, The Vegetable Kingdom: Or the Structure, Classification, and Uses of Plants, Illustrated upon the Natural System, 3d ed. (London: Bradbury, Evans, 1853).! Hybrid Dianths 1 As you have noticed hybrid Dianths, you may like to hear that the summer before last I fertilised a poor single pale red Carnation with the pollen of a crimson Spanish Pink; and likewise a Spanish Pink with the pollen of the same Carnation. I got seed from both crosses in fair number; namely, 77 seed from two pods of the Spanish Pink, and raised