Tartarian, ii. 230;
variety of, with curled petals, ii. 232;
period of vegetation of, changed by forcing, ii. 311.
CHEVREUL, on crossing fruit-trees, ii. 129.
CHICKENS, differences in characters of, i. 249-250;
white, liable to gapes, ii. 228, 336.
CHIGOE, ii. 275.
CHILE, sheep of, i. 95.
CHILLINGHAM cattle, identical with _Bos primigenius_, i. 81;
characters of, i. 83-84.
CHILOE, half-castes of, ii. 46.
CHINA, cats of, with drooping ears, i. 47;
horses of, i. 53;
striped ponies of, i. 59;
asses of, i. 62;
notice of rabbits in, by Confucius, i. 103;
breeds of pigeons reared in, i. 206;
breeds of fowls of, in fifteenth century, i. 232, 247;
goose of, i. 237.
CHINCHILLA, fertility of, in captivity, ii. 152.
CHINESE, selection practised by the, ii. 204-205;
preference of the, for hornless rams, ii. 209;
recognition of the value of native breeds by the, ii. 313.
CHINESE, or Himalayan rabbit, i. 108.
"CHIVOS," a breed of cattle in Paraguay, i. 89.
CHOUX-RAVES, i. 323.
CHRIST, H., on the plants of the Swiss Lake-dwellings, i. 309, 318;
intermediate forms between _Pinus sylvestris_ and _montana_, i. 363.
CHRYSANTHEMUM, i. 379.
_Chrysotis festiva_, ii. 280.
CINERARIA, effects of selection on the, ii. 200.
CIRCASSIA, horses of, ii. 102.
CIRCUMCISION, ii. 23.
CIRRIPEDES, metagenesis in, ii. 366.
_Cistus_, intercrossing and hybrids of, i. 336, 389, ii. 140.
_Cistus tricuspis_, bud-variation in, i. 377.
CITRONS, i. 334-335.
"_Citrus aurantium fructu variabili_," i. 336.
_Citrus decumana_, i. 335.
_Citrus lemonum_, i. 336.
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_Citrus medica_, i. 335-336.
CLEFT palate, inheritance of, ii. 24.
CLEMENTE, on wild vines in Spain, i. 332.
CLERMONT-TONNERRE, on the St. Valery apple, i. 401.
CLAPHAM, A., bud-variation in the hawthorn, i. 377.
"CLAQUANT," i. 138.
"CLAQUERS" (pigeons), i. 156.
CLARK, G., on the wild dogs of Juan de Nova, i. 27;
on striped Burmese and Javanese ponies, i. 59;
breeds of goats imported into the Mauritius, i. 101;
variations in the mammae of goats, i. 102;
bilobed scrotum of Muscat goat, _ibid._
CLARK, H. J., on fission and gemmation, ii. 359.
CLARKE, R. T., intercrossing of strawberries, i. 352.
CLARKE, T., hybridisation of stocks, i. 399, ii. 93.
CLARKSON, Mr., prize-cultivation of the gooseberry, i. 355.
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