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tion of the number of fruits formed from their probable 

 value. But it will be recalled that in the case of Staphylea 

 the process of elimination of ovaries was not yet complete. 

 In the original paper I remarked: "It may be found later 

 that after the elimination is complete the correlation be- 

 tween the number of flowers and the deviation of the 

 number of fruits per inflorescence from their prob- 



TABLE II. CELASTRUS. 



Number of Seeds per Fruit. 







1 



2 



3 



4 



5 



6 



Totals 





4 



5 



7 



4 





1 



1 



18 





5 





2 



4 



1 



7 



2 



16 





6 



1 



7 



7 



6 



1 



2 



24 



8 



7 



3 



8 



5 



14 



12 



10 



62 



a 



8 



4 



17 



11 



36 



33 



16 



117 



OQ 



9 



5 



20 



32 



56 



44 



23 



180 



a 



10 



4 



22 



38 



52 



57 



23 



196 



^ 



11 



4 



16 



42 



60 



62 



31 



215 



►3 



12 



4 



34 



71 



94 



97 



48 



348 





13 



6 



31 



63 



81 



68 



49 



298 



14 



7 



23 



68 



77 



81 



50 



306 



s 



15 



7 



26 



66 



87 



66 



50 



302 



^ 



16 



3 



12 



34 



52 



50 



32 



183 



o 



17 



2 



9 



22 



32 



28 



20 



113 



18 





5 



13 



20 



6 



3 



47 



o 



19 

 20 







1 

 13 



1 

 16 



3 



16 



1 

 8 



6 



1^ 



3 



6 



62 



21 



22 





1 



9 



3 



6 



1 



20 



23 

 24 



















2 



1 



8 



7 



4 



1 



23 





Totals 



60 



247 



511 



695 



642 



371 



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CORRELATION FOR FLOWERS PER INFLORESCENCE AND SEEDS PER FRUIT. 



able number will rise to sensibly 0, or take a substan- 

 tial positive value." I am anxious to see many other series 

 of comparable material collected and reduced for comparison 

 with these. 



The second question to demand solution is; What rela- 

 tionship, if any, is there between the number of flowers 

 formed per inflorescence and the number of seeds in the 

 fruits of an inflorescence? The same question is to be asked 



