The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication · Charles Darwin
LOCUST-TREE, 23.
LOISELEUR-DESLONGCHAMPS, originals of cultivated plants, 9; —Mongolian varieties of wheat, 9; —characters of the ear in wheat, 9; —acclimatisation of exotic wheat in Europe, 9; —effect of change of climate on wheat, 9; —on the supposed necessity of the coincident variation of weeds and cultivated plants, 9; —advantage of change of soil to plants, 18. _Lolium temulentum,_ variable presence of barbs in, 9. LONG-TAILED sheep, 3. LOOCHOO Islands, horses of, 2. LORD, J. K., on _Canis latrans,_ 1. “LORI RAJAH,” how produced, 7. _Lorius garrulus,_ 23. “LOTAN” tumbler pigeon, 5. LOUDON, J. W., varieties of the carrot, 9; —short duration of varieties of peas, 9; —on the glands of peach-leaves, 10; —presence of bloom on Russian apples, 10; —origin of varieties of the apple, 10; —varieties of the gooseberry, 10; —on the nut tree, 10; —varieties of the ash, 10; —fastigiate juniper (_J. suecica_), 10; —on _Ilex aquifolium ferox,_ 10; —varieties of the Scotch fir, 10 (2); —varieties of the hawthorn, 10; —variation in the persistency of leaves on the elm and Turkish oak, 10; —importance of cultivated varieties, 10; —varieties of _Rosa spinosissima,_ 10; —variation of dahlias from the same seed, 10; —production of Provence roses from seeds of the moss-rose, 11; —effect of grafting the purple-leaved upon the common hazel, 11; —intercrossing melons, 17; —nearly evergreen Cornish variety of the elm, 24.
MANU, domestic fowl noticed in the Institutes of, 7. MANURE, effect of, on the fertility of plants, 18. MANX cats, 1, 14. MARCEL DE SERRES, fertility of the ostrich, 18. MARIANNE Islands, varieties of _Pandanus_ in, 22. MARKHAM, GERVASE, on rabbits, 4, 20. MARKHOR, probably one of the parents of the goat, 3. MARQUAND, cattle of the Channel Islands, 3. MARRIMPOEY, inheritance in the horse, 12. MARROW, vegetable, 10. MARRYATT, Capt., breeding of asses in Kentucky, 21. MARSDEN, notice of _Gallus giganteus,_ 7. MARSHALL, Dr. W., on _Gallus sonneratii,_ 7. MARSHALL, Mr., voluntary selection of pasture by sheep, 3; —adaptation of wheats to soil and climate, 9; —“Dutch-buttocked” cattle, 12; —segregation of herds of sheep, 16; —advantage of change of soil to wheat and potatoes, 18; —fashionable change in the horns of cattle, 20; —sheep in Yorkshire, 21. MARTENS, E. VON, on _Achatinella,_ 13. MARTIN, W. C. L., origin of the dog, 1; —Egyptian dogs, 1; —barking of a Mackenzie River dog, 1; —African hounds in the Tower menagerie, 3; —on dun horses and dappled asses, 2; —breeds of the horse, 2; —wild horses, 2; —Syrian breeds of asses, 2; —asses without stripes, 2; —effects of cross-breeding on the female in dogs, 11; —striped legs of mules, 13. MARTINS, defective instincts of silkworms, 8. MARTIUS, C., fruit-trees of Stockholm, 24.
MASON, W., bud-variation in the ash, 11. MASTERS, Dr., on bud-variation and reversion, 11; —potato-grafting, 11; —on pollen within ovules, 27; —reversion in the spiral-leaved weeping willow, 11; —on peloric flowers, 13; —on _Opuntia,_ 23; —pelorism in a clover, 26; —position as a cause of pelorism, 26 (2). MASTERS, Mr., persistence of varieties of peas, 9; —reproduction of colour in hyacinths, 12; —on hollyhocks, 16; —selection of peas for seed, 20; —on _Hibiscus syriacus,_ 23; —reversion by the terminal pea in the pod, 26. MASTIFF, sculptured on an Assyrian monument, 1, 28; —Tibetan, 1, 23. MATTHEWS, PATRICK, on forest trees, 21. _Matthiola annua,_ 11 (2), 15. _Matthiola incana,_ 11 (2). MAUCHAMP merino sheep, 3. MAUDUYT, crossing of wolves and dogs in the Pyrenees, 1. MAUND, Mr., crossed varieties of wheat, 17. MAUPERTUIS, axiom of “least action,” 1. MAURITIUS, importation of goats into, 3. MAW, G., effects of change of climate, 24; —correlation of contracted leaves and flowers in pelargoniums, 25 (2). MAWZ, fertility of _Brassica rapa,_ 18. _Maxillaria,_ self-fertilised capsules of, 17. _Maxillaria atro-rubens,_ fertilisation of, by _M. squalens,_ 17. MAXIMOWICZ, direct action of pollen, 11. MAYERS, on gold-fish in China, 8. MAYES, M., self-impotence in _Amaryllis,_ 17. MECKEL, on the number of digits, 12; —correlation of abnormal muscles in the leg and arm, 25. MEDUSÆ, development of, 27 (2). MEEHAN, Mr., weeping peach, 12; —effects of parasites, 23; —comparison of European and American trees, 23. _Meles taxus,_ 18. —mongrel supposed to be produced from a twin-seed, 11; —crossing of varieties of, 11, 16, 17; —inferiority of, in Roman times, 20; —changes in, by culture and climate, 23; —serpent, correlation of variations in, 25; —analogous variations in, 26. MEMBRANES, false, 24 (2). MÉNÉTRIES, on the stomach of _Strix grallaria,_ 24. MENINGITIS, tubercular, inherited, 14. MERRICK, potato-grafting, 11.
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