se references to the pages. _See_ also, for several references,
Asa Gray, in the 'American Journal of Science,' vol. xxiv., Nov. 1857, p.
441. For the traditions of the natives of New Zealand, _see_ Crawfurd's
'Grammar and Dict. of the Malay Language,' 1852, p. cclx.

[535] _See_, for example, M. Hewett C. Watson's remarks on our wild plums
and cherries and crabs, 'Cybele Britannica,' vol. i. pp. 330, 334, &c. Van
Mons (in his 'Arbres Fruitiers,' 1835, tom. i. p. 444) declares that he has
found the types of all our cultivated varieties in wild seedlings, but then
he looks on these seedlings as so many aboriginal stocks.

[536] _See_ A. De Candolle, 'Geograph. Bot.,' 1855, p. 928 _et seq._
Godron, 'De l'Espece,' 1859, tom. ii. p. 70; and Metzger, 'Die
Getreidearten,' &c., 1841.

[537] Mr. Bentham, in his review, entitled 'Hist. Notes on cultivated
Plants,' by Dr. A. Targioni-Tozzetti, in 'Journal of Hort. Soc.,' vol. ix.
(1855), p. 133.

[538] 'Geograph. Bot.,' p. 928. The whole subject is discussed with
admirable fullness and knowledge.

[539] Godron, 'De l'Espece,' tom. ii. p. 72. A few years ago the excellent,
though misinterpreted, observations of M. Fabre led many persons to believe
that wheat was a modified descendant of AEgilops; but M. Godron (tom. i. p.
165) has shown by careful experiments that the first step in the series,
viz. _AEgilops triticoides_, is a hybrid between wheat and _AE. ovata_. The
frequency with which these hybrids spontaneously arise, and the gradual
manner in which the _AE. triticoides_ becomes converted into true wheat,
alone leave any doubt on the subject.

[540] Report to British Association for 1857, p. 207.

[541] 'Considerations sur les Cereales,' 1842-43, p. 29.

[542] 'Travels in the Himalayan Provinces,' &c., 1841, vol. i. p. 224.

[543] Col. J. Le Couteur on the 'Varieties of Wheat,' pp. 23, 79.

[544] Loiseleur-Deslongchamps, 'Consid. sur les Cereales,' p. 11.

[545] _See_ an excellent review in Hooker's 'Journ. of Botany,' vol. viii.
p. 82, note.

[546] 'De l'Espece,' tom. ii, p. 73.

[547] Idem, tom. ii. p. 75.

[548] For Dalbret and Philippar, _see_ Loiseleur-Deslongchamps, 'Consid.
sur les Cereales,' pp. 45, 70. Le Couteur on Wheat, p. 6.

[549] 'Varieties of Wheat,' Introduction, p. vi. Marshall, in his 'Rural
Economy of Yorkshire,' vol. ii. p. 9, remarks that "in every field of corn
there is as much variety as in a herd of cattle."

[550] 'Gardener's Chron.