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this random intercrossing, but I may just mention that in taking 

 up the pollen from a matured anther I have found that when a 

 bit of black sealing-wax is drawn out to a blunt point and (when 

 required to pick up pollen) just rubbed over the sleeve, the wax 



Fig. 63. — Campanula Balchixiana x (Mitten). 



Natural size, showing free, leafy, stalked sepals and superior corolla and 

 ovary. In the diagrammatic section, S = sepal, P = petal. Two hypogynous 

 stamens and a superior ovary in section are seen. 



becomes sufficiently electrified that loose pollen is caught up, can 

 be seen, and applied where desired, almost without touching a 

 flower.' " 



Since the publication of the above note a further opportunity 

 of examining the flowers has occurred. In Messrs. Veitch's 

 Nursery, at Chelsea, in September last, the flowers were as 

 conventionally proper as any Campanula flowers could be. The 

 eccentric behaviour of the plant figured (which was forwarded 

 through the kindness of Mr. R. Dean) must therefore be con- 

 sidered as exceptional, though in the writer's " Vegetable 

 Teratology," at p. 80, other cases are cited as "occasionally met 



