﻿Striped 
  Flowers 
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  count 
  of 
  their 
  stiff 
  and 
  erect 
  appearance, 
  

   and 
  they 
  are 
  marked 
  by 
  more 
  divergent 
  horns 
  

   crowning 
  the 
  pods. 
  They 
  are 
  said 
  to 
  produce 
  

   only 
  a 
  relatively 
  small 
  number 
  of 
  doubles 
  from 
  

   their 
  seeds, 
  and 
  even 
  this 
  small 
  number 
  might 
  

   be 
  due 
  to 
  fertilization 
  with 
  pollen 
  of 
  their 
  

   neighbors. 
  I 
  saw 
  some 
  of 
  these 
  reversionary 
  

   types, 
  when 
  inspecting 
  the 
  nurseries 
  of 
  Erfurt, 
  

   but 
  as 
  they 
  are, 
  as 
  a 
  rule, 
  thrown 
  out 
  before 
  

   ripening 
  their 
  seed, 
  nothing 
  is 
  exactly 
  known 
  

   about 
  their 
  real 
  hereditary 
  qualities. 
  

  

  Much 
  remains 
  to 
  be 
  cleared 
  up, 
  but 
  it 
  seems 
  

   that 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  best 
  means 
  to 
  find 
  a 
  way 
  through 
  

   the 
  bewildering 
  maze 
  of 
  the 
  phenomena 
  of 
  in- 
  

   heritance, 
  is 
  to 
  make 
  groups 
  of 
  related 
  forms 
  

   and 
  to 
  draw 
  conclusions 
  from 
  a 
  comparison 
  of 
  

   the 
  members 
  of 
  such 
  groups. 
  Such 
  comparisons 
  

   must 
  obviously 
  give 
  rise 
  to 
  questions, 
  which 
  in 
  

   their 
  turn 
  will 
  directly 
  lead 
  to 
  experimental 
  in- 
  

   vestigation. 
  

  

  