(4) Augt 5' dug up th flower-Hed which buried itself on July 22^d. — «The aborted flower» Had becme perfectly white & thog «bore» ‹were› vy few long simple Hairs, & excpt one yng one «(& this was affected by C. of Amnia)» had none of th muticellular Hairs. The^t1 outer one had becom much developed into lng— rigid cylinder, bearg 5 points & had grwn beneth th soil, by whic mean thy ‹grw› had entangled th earth & formed a ball — frm which the earth c^{d t2} not easily be washed «This must have been chiefly due to th points after grwng ‹hav› bending upwards & this would tend to drag flower-Hed deeper in earth.»^t3 — an admirable^t4 protction to th 3 included tru flowers with seds much enlarged.— Then looked again at th yng aborted flowers on Heads not buried & on their summits, before th long 5-clawed prjections hd been developed,^t5 there were an abundance of th short, cylindrical, multicellular, hair containing much «white» protopasm which aggregates^t6 under influence of C. of Ammnia 2 gr to 1 oz weakened by water under coverng glass: th cells seem at first filled with^t7
Aggretion of subunits^{t8 t9}

Physical Characteristics: pale blue; wove paper; folded at one time
Textual Features: in dark grey ink

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