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sential point of the hypothesis, and every Presiimption that may have 
existed in its favor. 
The aly additional remark for which we have room relates to a 
question of taste. We are confident that our excellent friend, on being 
made aware of the idea which his paragraph, No. 241, conveys solely 
through the unfortunate choice of a phrase, will in another edition no 
longer speak of our Savior as yielding His assent to the —— of 
a quotation from Young’s Night Thoughts 
Wheat from Egilops.— —The announcement by Prof. Dunal, “of 
Montpellier, two or three years ago, that M. Fabre, of that vicinity, had 
converted Aigilops triticoides into ae - cultivation for several 
generations, excited a lively sensation, wh as not yet subsided 
Prof. Dunal appears to have satisfied himself san A: gilops triticoides, 
le ee | its ancestor, LE. ovata,—a common "athe on the southern 
t of. Fr 
Ge Oe ee re eee, Fae Ss 
ecount has called forth many detailed 
arious views have been maintained : but at length. ‘i 
nis of M. a of Besancon appear to have 
-M.G n’s os is published in the An- 
nales des Sciences Naturelle for , No.4. He remarks, i in 
the first place, that the so-called s scsi gions Seabee is only of 
sparse and occasional occurrence ; that it is seldom if e ya od 
ala 
abounds as a wild plant ; that intermediate states between Z&. ood ita 
4&. triticoides do not occur, as they are apt to do between races or y 
elies of any species ; but that . triticoides itself varies in certain 
spects and according to the kind of wheat which is cultivated in the 
neighborhood ; and, finally, that the wild 4. triticoides usually pro- 
duces very little seed. From these considerations he was naturally led 
to suspect 4. oe to be a hybrid, oe from the accueil 
fecundation of Z. ovata by the pollen of wheat. And this ye 
he has verified by aes experiment ; ; that is, he has raised 4. t 
coides from seeds produced by i ora the ovaries ot fi, rela 
by wheat pollen. At the same time, and in the same manner, M. Go- 
dron produced a new and analogous hybrid by be aekaoting " Bgilops 
triaristata with the pollen of common wheat; as well as another by 
impregnating ovata with the pollen of Bearded Spelt (Triticum 
Spelta, barbatum). It seems, therefore, most probable that M: Fab 
Evilops-wheat owed its origin to the accidental fertilization of the 
a 
ovata—by the pollen of its male parent, wafted from adjacent wheat 
fields ; the cross-breed returning to the male type in the usual manaet 
under such circumstances, 
This evidence, however, does not convince Dr. Lindley ; ; who 1 
that M. Godron and others have not explained what the origin of whea' 
has been, if it is not a aoe condition of Agilops: irae er 
— which we must say is by no means incumbent upon M. G f 
had accomplished his object pote he has shown, as he has ‘cleat! ‘i 
dons aling 3h Fabre’s famous experiments do not prove oAigilon/ jor 
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