996 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



and according to him also seed, does not in the least detract from this 

 theory. The Lelong fig, the Cordelia fig, as well as the Croisic fig, must 

 be considered as improved caprifigs which have not yet lost their male 

 flowers. 



36. LaHire, page 287. But Colin Milne was the first one to closely point 

 out that the cultivated figs contained no male flowers, only female flowers. 

 (1770.) See Milne's dictionary, article, " caprification." 



37. Solms-Laubach, I, p. 14. 



38. B. M. Lelong in Report of State Board of HorticultLire, 1891, p. 

 234. Mr. Lelong says that the flowers " were so grouped that the pollen 

 from one was freely conveyed to the other. Thus fertilized the female 

 blossoms had develoj^ed into hundreds of perfect seeds with well deflned 

 kernels." Here then is no proterogynic dichogamy, a notable exception 

 if true. 



39. Solms-Labach, 1, p. 14, also Gasparrini, II, p. 400, tab. 2. 



40. Gasparrini 1. c. under point No. 8. He says he impregnated arti- 

 ficially thirty flower heads on a Ladaro fig by introducing into the aper- 

 ture the pollen of the caprifig. In California this experiment was first 

 tried in 1890 by Mr. G. Eoeding. 



41. As is customary with unpopular theories, the first remarks on capri- 

 fication in California were simply sneered at and at the best considered 

 illusionary, and heated discussions were entered into. 



42. For further account of this visit, see the introduction of the 

 Blastophaga in California. 



43. So called because they were distributed to the subscribers of the 

 San Francisco Bulletin, an evening daily paper, which, during Mr. G. P. 

 Eixford's management, did much for horticulture in California. A full 

 history of this introduction will be found in a work on Fig Culture, which 

 I soon hope to publish. 



44. Solms-Laubach, I, p. 64 and 65. No seeds found in figs from An- 

 gouleme, St. Savinier, La Mothe, as well as in the "wild " figs from these 

 districts. Nor did he discover seeds in figs sent from Brazil, by Prof. F. 

 Mliller, same No. I, p. 39. The seedling referred to in Prof. Mliller's 

 letter probably originated from imported Smyrna figs, similar seedlings 

 being quite common in, for instance, Washington, D. C. 



45. Solms-Laubach, p. 34, is inclined to reject the parthenogenesis 

 theory entirely, until proven by conclusive experiments. Even Gasparrini 

 himself half doubts it, saying that pollen may possibly have entered in 

 some unaccountable way. 



46. Arcangeli, p. 2. 



47. Solms-Laubach, I, p. 11, found only twenty fertile seeds in forty 

 caprifigs (mammoni). GasiJarrini, I, p. 328. 



48. Profichi is pronounced as profeekee. 



49. See historical jDart. 



