Note 48 — PART II.

Mr. F. Buckland found 6,867,840 eggs in a cod-fish (‘Land and Water,’ 1868, p. 62). An Ascaris produces about 64,000,000 eggs (Carpenter’s ‘Comp. Phys.,’ 1854, p. 590). Mr. J. Scott, of the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, calculated, in the same manner as I have done for some British Orchids (‘Fertilisation of Orchids,’ p. 344), the number of seeds in a capsule of an Acropera and found the number to be 371,250. Now this plant produces several flowers on a raceme, and many racemes during a season. In an allied genus, Gongora, Mr. Scott has seen twenty capsules produced on a single raceme; ten such racemes on the Acropera would yield above seventy-four millions of seed.