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- conditions. en sown in moist, sandy soil, and placed in a green- 
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going down to 60° Fahr., or lower, I have found that most of the 
Species I have tried will germinate in thirty-six hours, many in twenty- 
four hours, and that with regard to some species, but not all, it does 
: not appear to matter whether the seed has but just ripened or has been 
kept for eight or ten years, except that in the latter case there is a 
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quin’s work for the following species :—ambigua, asterias, bufonia, 
spitosa, divaricata, geminata, glauca, hircosa, hirsuta, hirtella, 
vencula, lepida, maculosa, patula (sororia, Jacy.), planiflora, radiata, 
linata, replicata, reticulata, roriflua, rugosa, serrulata, sororia (patula, 
illd.), sororia va , variegata, verrucosa, and vetula. For 
eg eae grandiflora, and normalis Jacquin is not quoted. And 
