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Atavism. 
These produced in the summer of 1895 the result shown 
in the table on page 131. 
In other words, the average intensity of inheritance 
for striped spikes was 98% and for red ones 71%. 
If we compare these figures with those derived from 
the previous generation we do not observe any appre- 
ciable difference between them. In other words, the in- 
tensity of inheritance exhibited by the red bud-variants 
is essentially the same as that of the red seed-variants. 
In the following year I continued this experiment 
through one more generation by self-fertilizing some 
striped and some red individuals amongst the offspring 
of the bud-variants. The seeds of three striped parents 
gave rise to 67 offspring that flowered, only 5% of which 
were red ; the seeds of the five red seed-parents, however, 
gave rise to 127 offspring of which 84% were red. (The 
percentages in the five individual groups were 71-78-84- 
88 and 100.) Thus the proportions were similar to 
those of the previous year. 
ANTIRRHINUM MAJUS LUTEUM RUBRO-STRIATUM. 
SEED- AND BUD-VARIATION (ANNUAL CULTURES). 
Year 
1896 
(1895) 
95% Striped 
Striped plant 
84% Red. 
I 
Red plants 
1895 98% Striped 
(1894) Striped twigs 
71% Red. 
I 
Red twigs. 
1894 
1893 
1892 
98% Striped 
90 % Striped plants 
76% Red. 
I 
10% Red plants 
f 
Striped plant 
