n which the term is employed, i. 6.
NAUDIN, supposed rules of transmission in crossing plants, ii. 68;
on the nature of hybrids, ii. 48-49;
essences of the species in hybrids, ii. 386, 401;
reversion of hybrids, ii. 36, 49-50;
reversion in flowers by stripes and blotches, ii. 37;
hybrids of _Linaria vulgaris_ and _purpurea_, ii. 94;
pelorism in _Linaria_, ii. 58, 346;
crossing of peloric _Linaria_ with the normal form, ii. 70;
variability in _Datura_, ii. 266;
hybrids of _Datura laevis_ and _stramonium_, i. 392;
prepotency of transmission of _Datura stramonium_ when crossed, ii. 67;
on the pollen of _Mirabilis_ and of hybrids, i. 389;
fertilisation of _Mirabilis_, ii. 363;
crossing of _Chamaerops humilis_ and the date palm, i. 399;
cultivated Cucurbitaceae, i. 357-360, ii. 108;
rudimentary tendrils in gourds, ii. 316;
dwarf _Cucurbitae_, ii. 330;
relation between the size and number of the fruit in _Cucurbita pepo_,
ii. 343;
analogous variation in _Cucurbitae_, ii. 349;
acclimatisation of Cucurbitaceae, ii. 313;
production of fruit by sterile hybrid Cucurbitaceae, ii. 172;
on the melon, i. 360, ii. 108, 275;
incapacity of the cucumber to cross with other species, i. 359.
NECTARINE, i. 336-344;
derived from the peach, i. 337, 339-342;
hybrids of, i. 339;
persistency of characters in seedling, i. 340;
origin of, _ibid._;
produced on peach trees, i. 340-341;
producing peaches, i. 341;
variation in, i. 342-343;
bud-variation in, i. 374;
glands in the leaves of the, ii. 231;
analogous variation in, ii. 348.
NECTARY, variations of, in pansies, i. 369.
NEES, on changes in the odour of plants, ii. 274.
"NEGRO" cat, i. 46.
NEGROES, polydactylism in, ii. 14;
selection of cattle practised by, ii. 207.
NEOLITHIC period, domestication of _Bos longifrons_ and _primigenius_ in
the, i. 81;
cattle of the, distinct from the original species, i. 87;
domestic goat in the, i. 101;
cereals of the, i. 317.
NERVE, optic, atrophy of the, ii. 297.
NEUMEISTER, on the Dutch and German pouter pigeons, i. 138;
on the Jacobin pigeon, i. 154;
duplication of the middle flight feather in pigeons, i. 159;
on a peculiarly coloured breed of pigeons, "Staarhalsige Taube," i.
161;
fertility of hybrid pigeons, i. 192;
mongrels of the trumpeter