Note 104 — Chapter XVIII · ON THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF CHANGED CONDITIONS OF LIFE: STERILITY FROM VARIOUS CAUSES.
Reading edition
Lindley, ‘Theory of Horticulture,’ pp. 175-179; Godron, ‘De l’Espèce,’ tom. ii. p. 106; Pickering, ‘Races of Man;’ Gallesio, ‘Teoria della Riproduzione,’ l816, pp. 101-110. Meyen, (‘Reise um Erde,’ Th. ii. s. 214) states that at Manilla one variety of the banana is full of seeds: and Chamisso (Hooker’s ‘Bot. Misc.,’ vol. i. p. 310) describes a variety of the bread-fruit in the Mariana Islands with small fruit, containing seeds which are frequently perfect. Burnes, in his ‘Travels in Bokhara,’ remarks on the pomegranate seeding in Mazenderan, as a remarkable peculiarity.