ON THE VITALITY OF SEEDS. 



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Eleventh Report of a Committee, consisting o/H. E.Strickland, Esq., 

 Prof. Daubeny, Prof. Henslow, and Prof. Lindle y, appointed to 

 continue their Experiments on the Gh'owth and Vitality of Seeds. 

 In the spring of the present year the allotted portions of each kind of seed ga- 

 thered in 184?3, being the third sowing of such kinds, were subjected to experi- 

 ment, under circumstances similar to those resorted to on previous occasions*. 

 So few additions have lately been made to the Depot at Oxford, that it 

 becomes a duty on our part, to request that persons interested in these expe- 

 riments, will lend their aid by contributing seeds of known date, and where 

 possible, in quantities sufficient for distribution, especially those of genera 

 not included in the list given in the Report for 1848. 



The annexed Table contains the names, &c. of the kinds sown : — 



Name and Date when gathered. 



1843. 



1. Asphodelus luteus 



2. Arctium Lappa 



3. Angelica Archangelica ... 



4. Allium fragrans 



5 Borkhausia rubra 



6. Bartonia aurea 



7. Campanula Meadia 



8. Dianthus barbatus 



9. Euphorbia Lathyris 



10. Gypsophila elegans 



11. Hesperis matronalis 



12. Hypericum birsutum 



13. Kaulfussia amelloides...... 



14. Loasa lateritia 



15. (Enanthe Crocata 



1 6. Plantago media 



17. Polemonium coeruleum ... 



18. Rumex obtusifolia 



19. Silene inflata 



20. Smyrnium Olusatrum 



21. Tigridia Pavonia 



22. Ageratum mexicanura ... 



23. Aster tenella 



24. Bidens diversifolia 



25. Biscutella erigerifolia 



26. Callistemraa hortensis ... 



27. Centaurea depressa 



28. Cladanthus arabicus 



29. Cleome spinosa 



30. Convolvulus major 



31. Echium grandiflorum 



32. Eucharidiura grandiflorum 



33. Helenium Douglasii 



34. Hebenstretia tenuifolia ... 



35. Heliophila araboides 



36. Koniga maritima 



37. Leptosiphon androsaceus 



38. Lunaria biennis 



39. Matthiola annua 



40. Melilotiis coeruleus 



41. Phytolacca decandra ...... 



42. Schizanthus pinnatus 



43. Talinum ciliatum 



44. Viola lutea vai-s 



No. 

 sown. 



50 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 200 

 100 

 100 



50 

 200 

 100 

 150 

 100 

 150 

 100 

 150 

 100 

 150 



50 

 100 

 100 

 200 

 200 

 150 

 100 

 200 

 100 

 200 

 100 



50 

 100 

 200 

 200 

 100 

 200 

 200 

 200 

 100 

 200 

 100 



25 

 200 

 200 

 150 



No. of Seeds of each 

 Species which vege- 

 tated at 



Time of vegetating 

 in days at 



Ox- Cam- Chis- 

 ford, bridge, wick 



Ox- Cam- Chis- 

 ford. bridge, wick. 



16 



5 16 



15 



10 



16 



