On the examination of a hybrid digitalis / by J.S. Henslow.

  • John Stevens Henslow
Date:
1831
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the examination of a hybrid digitalis / by J.S. Henslow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

    5/36
    VIII. On the Kwamination of a Hybrid Digitalis. By the Rev. J. S. HENSLOW, M. A. PEOFESSOR OF BOTANY, AND SECRETARY TO THE CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. [Read Nov. 14, 1831.] Although the propagation of hybrid plants has been much attended to of late years by several Horticulturists in England, their experiments, for the most part, seem to have been under- taken for the sole object of encreasing the forms of beautiful flowers, or of modifying the flavour of delicious fruits. But the more curious and important physiological facts elicited by the phenomenon of hybrid productions do not appear to have received a proportionate degree of attention from those who have been engaged in these experiments. Chance having favoured me with a hybrid Digitalis during the past summer (1831), in my own garden, I employed myself, whilst it continued to flower, which was from June 19 to July 22, in daily examining its characters and anatomizing its parts of fructification. I was careful to com- pare my observations, with as much patience and accuracy as I can command, with the structure of its two parents. It seemed to me not unlikely that something interesting might result from a rigorous examination of this kind, or at least that its recorded details might serve as a point of departure for future observa- tions. A