[272] That is to say, flowers possessing both stamens, or male organs, and pistils or female organs.
[273] Christian Conrad Sprengel, born 1750, died 1816.
[274] Fertilisation of Flowers (Eng. Trans.) 1883, p. 3.
[275] Das entdeckte Geheimniss der Natur im Baue und in der Befruchtung der Blumen. Berlin, 1793.
[276] The order to which the pea and bean belong.
[277] Gardeners' Chronicle, 1857, p. 725. It appears that this paper was a piece of "over-time" work. He wrote to a friend, "that confounded Leguminous paper was done in the afternoon, and the consequence was I had to go to Moor Park for a week."
[278] The sweet pea and everlasting pea belong to the genus Lathyrus.
[279] Gardeners' Chronicle, 1858, p. 828.
[280] He published a short paper on the manner of fertilisation of this flower, in the Gardeners' Chronicle 1871, p. 1166.
[281] The woodpecker was one of his stock examples of adaptation.