314 E. Regel on Parthenogenesis. 
Chameerops last year) from female flowers; but among the female : 
flowers were scattered solitary stunted male flowers, which 
them out, I found that they were sessile bein, pertries| ; 
tained periect poll 
and the withering away of the earliest female blest ee 7 
fruit. tga Ol here is of 
The very abundant development of axillary pee aol 
course a result of the cutting back of the plant and pee ee 
of the lateral shoots which continually break out afi veo thede 
axils, since the formative energy is wholly diverted 6° og. 
velopment of flower-buds. A large proportion of. a 
mental plants did not bear this injury, and soon C7 
Whether the experimental plants of Spinacea and er 
eaegi seeds capable of germination, or not, nera only a 7 
ave already fully convinced me that these tw . n of adventr — 
velop perfect seeds under the influence of the pov@r’ onting 
tious male flowers, and that the only possiblity of De single 
fecundation is hy daily repeated observation 
