away from a large apiary, and a like nuinber from another 

 field of much the same soil , and, practically, under like 

 conditions as the first field except that the second field 

 was situated twenty-five miles away from a colony of hees. 

 No hees were observed in the latter field. The pods from 

 each field were carefully opened and the nuraher of seeds 

 in each counted. 87 pods taken half a mile from the hee 

 hives contained 482 seeds or 5.58 per pod. 80 pods taken 

 25 miles from these produced 268 seeds or 3,35 per pod. 



Medicago Plowers Tripping Historical Resume' 



(Kirchner, Q,. On the effect of self fertilization in 

 Papilionaceae. Naturw. zeitschrift fur land- und forst- 

 wirthschaf. January 1905. heft- 1-3, p. 45.) 



Kirchner states that the reports on the success of 



self fertilization of the violet blossoms of Medicago 



sativa which are provided with an explosive arrangement 



are contradictory. 





 "The experiments made by us", he states, "in 1902, at 



Hohenheim, showed plainly that the plants are self stirile.. . . 



I'ift3'--four exposed clusters of "blossoms on two plants 



with 432 "blossoms produced Aug. 23, 208 pods which, though 



tlaey were not perfectly ripe, showed plainly that they 



contained 636 well developed seeds. On the other hand 



21 covered closters of "blossoms on the same plant with 



166 "blossoms produced only 2 pods with 3 seeds." 



"Similar results were also o"btained with the flowers 



(68) 



