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height of the season. Planted in December in sterilized soil.— 45 
plants, nos. 27 to 71. 
4th lot. Remaining seed from the first three spikes, planted in 
February in sterilized soil.— 66 plants, nos. 72 to 137. 
The first three lots were twice repotted, and were never set out 
in the garden. The fourth lot were set out in the garden early in 
the spring. Details of the planting are recorded because some of 
the plants will be grown another generation, and reported upon next 
year. The results of growing the first generation are chiefly of interest 
in that they show how the characters of such a derivative as the 2d 
form hermaphrodite might maintain themselves in nature, without 
isolation or selection. 
The progeny were readily classified, with a few exceptions which 
will be discussed later, as typical hermaphrodites of the 1st and 2d 
forms. The numbers of the two types were as follows: 
Lot 1st Form. 2d Form. Unclassified Total. 
I. 6 2 1 9 
II. 7 10 0 17 
III. 17 20 8 45 
IV. 21 41 4 66 
All. 51 73 13 137 
None of the plants classified as 1st and 2d form hermaphrodites 
showed any marked deviation in anther character from the types 
illustrated in figs. 1 and 2. There were, however, several plants 
among those called 2d form which had the typical anthers of this 
form but long filaments, and one plant with unusually green anthers. 
These will be grown for another generation. The 13 unclassified 
plants included 7 which formed vigorous rosettes, but did not flower, 
and 6 with short rounded spikes. The mother plant had long spikes 
(var. alopecurodes F. Ludwig). Short-spiked plants of Plantago 
lanceolata have been set off as a variety (var. sphaerostachya DC.) 
which is not generally maintained as valid, for most systematists 
would probably regard it, a priori, as a mere ecological state. In my 
cultures, however, a short-spiked variety was sharply set off from a 
long-spiked variety, although both were grown under identical con- 
ditions. The short-spiked plants had some white stamens, but could 
