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it would be sown,—there might be some half-unconscious bias of his 
judgment in looking at the two specimens sent. His reply to the 
question came in terms of doubt or hesitancy, but to the effect that 
one of the two specimens might be candicans, approximating to viride ; 
the other being also candicans, approaching rather to paganum. Tis 
same lot. Mr. Baker’s reply was more decided, giving the name 
paganum without dubiety ; as I had fully expected that he would do 
and must do, 
plant shown to Mr. Boswell-Syme in a dried state, and admitted by 
him to be a fair example of candicans. Over a second heap of horse- 
droppings, a layer of rather stiff mould had been laid, instead of the 
mens for drying, in order to avoid the mischief of sowing seeds by 
thousands on my vegetable ground. A very few later seedlings came 
