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  Ever-sporting 
  Varieties 
  

  

  and 
  of 
  Clarkia 
  pulchella. 
  Both 
  of 
  them 
  are 
  

   ever-sporting 
  varieties. 
  The 
  experiments 
  were 
  

   conducted 
  during 
  five 
  generations 
  with 
  the 
  vi- 
  

   olet, 
  and 
  during 
  four 
  with 
  the 
  striped 
  Clarkia, 
  

   including 
  the 
  progeny 
  of 
  the 
  striped 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  

   monochromatic 
  red 
  offspring 
  of 
  a 
  primitive 
  

   striped 
  plant. 
  I 
  need 
  not 
  give 
  the 
  figures 
  here 
  

   for 
  the 
  numerical 
  relations 
  between 
  the 
  differ- 
  

   ent 
  types 
  of 
  each 
  group, 
  and 
  shall 
  limit 
  myself 
  

   to 
  the 
  statement 
  that 
  they 
  behaved 
  in 
  exactly 
  

   the 
  same 
  manner 
  as 
  the 
  snapdragon. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  worth 
  while 
  to 
  dwell 
  a 
  moment 
  on 
  the 
  

   capacity 
  of 
  the 
  individuals 
  with 
  red 
  flowers 
  to 
  

   reproduce 
  the 
  striped 
  type 
  among 
  their 
  off- 
  

   spring. 
  For 
  it 
  is 
  manifest 
  that 
  this 
  latter 
  qual- 
  

   ity 
  must 
  have 
  lain 
  dormant 
  in 
  them 
  during 
  their 
  

   whole 
  life. 
  Darwin 
  has 
  already 
  pointed 
  out 
  

   that 
  when 
  a 
  character 
  of 
  a 
  grandparent, 
  which 
  

   is 
  wanting 
  in 
  the 
  progeny, 
  reappears 
  in 
  the 
  sec- 
  

   ond 
  generation, 
  this 
  quality 
  must 
  always 
  be 
  

   assumed 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  present, 
  though 
  latent 
  in 
  

   the 
  intermediate 
  generation. 
  To 
  the 
  many 
  in- 
  

   stances 
  given 
  by 
  him 
  of 
  such 
  alternative 
  inher- 
  

   itance, 
  the 
  monochromatic 
  reversionists 
  of 
  the 
  

   striped 
  varieties 
  are 
  to 
  be 
  added 
  as 
  a 
  new 
  type. 
  

   It 
  is 
  moreover, 
  a 
  very 
  suggestive 
  type, 
  since 
  the 
  

   latency 
  is 
  manifestly 
  of 
  quite 
  another 
  character 
  

   than 
  for 
  instance 
  in 
  the 
  case 
  of 
  Mendelian 
  hv- 
  

  

  * 
  

  

  brids, 
  and 
  probably 
  more 
  allied 
  to 
  those 
  in- 
  

  

  