The oxlips were the same plants which, after their seeds had been collected, were transplanted and experimented on.
Character of the offspring from oxlips artificially self-fertilised and cross- fertilised in a state of nature.
Hence we may infer that seedlings from self-fertilised oxlips would hardly be able to exist in a state of nature.
I thus raised six plants, and compared them with a group of wildoxlips which I had transplanted into my garden.
I may premise that the pollen of two of the short-styled oxlips consisted of nothing but minute aborted whitish cells; but in the third short-styled plant about one- fifth of the grains appeared in a sound condition.
I was surprised to find that all the pollen-grains in the first of these seedling oxlips appeared sound; and in the second only a moderate number were bad.
It is probable that oxlips may be produced either from the cowslip or the primrose as the seed- bearer, but oftenest from the latter, as I judge from the nature of the stations in which oxlips are generally found (2/13.
The Reverend Professor Henslow raised from seeds of a cowslip growing in his garden, various kinds of oxlips and one perfect primrose; but a statement in the same paper perhaps throws light on this anomalous result.
Character of the offspring from oxlips artificially self-fertilised and cross-fertilised in a state of nature.
Herbert raised, from the seeds of a highly cultivated red cowslip, cowslips, oxlips of various kinds, and a primrose.
With respect to Primula, and one point about which I feel positive is that the Bardfield and common oxlips are fundamentally distinct plants, and that the common oxlip is a sterile hybrid.
I have seen oxlips (which from some experiments I now look at as certainly natural hybrids) in same state.
I know a bank where the wild Thyme blows, Where Oxlips and the nodding Violet grows.
I know a bank where the wild Thyme blows, Where Oxlips and the nodding Violet grows; Quite over-canopied with luscious Woodbine, With sweet Musk-Roses and with Eglantine.
I know a bank where the wild Thyme blows, Where Oxlips and the nodding Violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious Woodbine.
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.
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