CORRELATION, INFLORESCENCE OF CELASTRUS SCANDENS. 117 



2541 fruits, only two were found in which the fruit was 

 four-celled and the number of seeds greater than 6. Of 

 course it is impossible to say that more than 6 ovules 

 might not have l9een produced in any of the fruits which 

 bore 6 seeds or fewer. It seemed best to regard these two 

 cases merely as teratological; the two clusters upon which 

 they were borne were therefore discarded, and only 384 



TABLE I. CELASTRUS. 















Fruits Matured 



per Infloresence. 





















2 



3 



4 



5 



6 



7 



8 



9 



10 



11 



12 



13 



14 



15 16 



17 



18 19 



20 



21 



22 



23 



Totals 



s 



a 



1 

 o 



d 

 1— ( 



TO 



fi 

 (P 



& 



o 



4 



5 



6 



7 



8 



9 



10 



11 



12 



13 



14 



15 



16 



17 



18 



19 



20 



21 



22 



23 



24 



i 



1 

 1 

 1 



i 



2 

 1 

 3 



5 

 11 



9 

 5 

 5 



7 

 4 



1 

 1 

 1 

 1 



3 

 2 

 1 

 4 

 5 

 6 

 9 

 4 

 8 

 6 

 6 

 4 

 2 



i 



1 



6 



11 



3 



10 

 5 

 4 

 3 



4 

 5 



1 



i 



i 



2 



3 

 9 

 5 

 9 

 6 

 2 

 2 

 2 



i 



i 



2 

 3 



8 

 9 

 6 

 5 

 3 

 1 

 3 



'4 

 5 

 3 

 1 

 3 

 6 

 2 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 1 



1 



1 

 6 

 2 

 5 

 5 

 2 

 1 

 1 



2 

 2 

 4 

 4 

 3 

 5 



1 

 21 



i 



1 

 3 



2 

 4 

 2 



1 

 14 



2 

 1 

 4 

 2 



1 

 1 



11 



i 



2 

 4 



7 



2 

 2 



i 



1 

 6 



1 



1 



4 



1 



. . 



2 











1 



5 



4 



ft 



13 



27 



37 



36- 



37 



54 



43 



38 



36- 



23 



13 



4 



1 



4 



2 



1 





Totals 



5 56 



60 



55 



42 



41 



34 24 



2 





1 



384 



CORRELATION FOR FLOWERS AND FRUITS. 



used for the statistical study. Since that time I have found 

 Celastrus in which 4-celled fruits occurred very frequently, 

 and it is possibly unfortunate that the two inflorescences 

 bearing these aberrant fruits were discarded. But it is cer- 

 tainly not worth while to go to the labor of inserting them 

 into the tables. 



The number of fruits per inflorescence is quite variable, 

 ranging in the present sample from 2 to 23. The first 



