Antirrhinum Majus Striatum. 131 
production of individuals of the opposite race in both 
cases as atavism. The striped offspring of the red parents 
resemble their grandparents. The red offspring of the 
striped parents resemble the wild species, that is, their 
very remote ancestors. Thus the difference in the in- 
tensity of inheritance could be expressed in the state- 
ment that the influence of the nearer ancestors is greater 
than that of the remoter ones. But this is merely a re- 
statement of the facts in conventional terminology. It 
affords no clue to the solution of the problem. 
Amongst the finely striped individuals in the culture 
under consideration there were thirteen plants which had, 
besides the striped terminal portion of the main stem 
and the several striped lateral branches, one or two twigs 
with red flowers exclusively. A good opportunity was 
thus offered of studying inheritance in bud-variants. I 
owed it to the fact that the seeds had been sown early, 
the plants had been grown far apart and the ground 
well manured ; circumstances which together brought 
about a profuse branching in all the plants. I trans- 
planted these individuals to a separate spot, picked off 
all the open flowers and young fruits and superfluous 
twigs, and enclosed 1-2 striped and 1-2 red spikes in 
bags to insure pure self-fertilization. 
PERCENTAGES 
Plant No. Red Striped Totals Red Striped 
From the red } 
spikes I 
1 
73 
27 
100 
73 
27 
2 
21 
12 
33 
63 
37 
3 
25 
5 
30 
77 
23 
1 
3 
93 
96 
4 
96 
2 

75 
75 

100 
3 
1 
36 
37 
3 
97 
From the striped 
spikes I 
I obtained a sufficient harvest of the striped and red 
spikes of the same plant from three individuals only. 
