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ON THE VITALITY OF SEEDS. 
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Thirteenth Report of a Committee, consisting of Professor Daubeny, 
Professor Henslow, and Professor Lindley, appointed to con¬ 
tinue their Experiments on the Growth and Vitality of Seeds. 
The seeds subjected to experiment this year were the oldest of the set pre- 
( H’rved for the above purpose in the depot at Oxford, having been gathered 
in the years 1834, 1835,1836,1837 and 1841, aud, as will be seen by refer¬ 
ence to the annexed Table, few of them retained their vitality up to the 
present date.—September 1854. 
Ninie and Date when gathered. 
No. 
No. of Seeds of each 
Species which vegc 
tated at 
Time of regelating 
in days at 
Remarks. 
Ox- 
ford. 
Cam¬ 
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i . . 1834< 
*• Arabia lucida. 
2. Hypericum Kalmiannm. 
• msiflora llerbcrtiana . 
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»• Bcrberis Aquifolia. 
Euphorbia Latbyris . 
'• Giha capitata. 
j :• '/pwpbila elegans . 
10 *»ii ,,CC0U . m P r °cumbens. 
, 1 olcmonium gradlc . 
r , . 1836. 
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